Some more details about this case:



“At this stage of the investigation there seems to be no terrorist motive whatsoever,” Le Goater said.



Following the cathedral fire in July 2020, the suspect was held in detention until late May when he was then released under judicial supervision and placed in the abbey, the prosecutor said. After talking about wanting to leave, he was transferred to a psychiatric hospital where he stayed until the end of July.



The killing will raise pressure on President Emmanuel Macron over his security and immigration policy, eight months out from a presidential election that will see his biggest challenge come from the far right.



“So in France you can be an illegal immigrant, torch Nantes cathedral, never be expelled and reoffend by murdering a priest. What’s happening in our country is unprecedented: the total failure of the state,” tweeted far-right leader Marine Le Pen.



France’s immigration authorities had handed the Rwandan national an expulsion order in 2019, but he remained in the country as he awaited trial.



Prosecutors allege that a year later he set fire to Nantes cathedral. The July 2020 blaze engulfed the inside of the 15th-century cathedral, destroying a grand organ, stained-glass windows and a painting.



Local worshippers described a priest much loved by his parishioners and known for his profound homilies.



“I’m in shock. I cannot believe it to be,” Sister Dorothee Harushinana, who attended a Mass the priest had led on Sunday, told Reuters by telephone. “He was someone close to the people. You could always call on him.”



https://www.euronews.com/2021/08/10/us-france-security

I wonder how this case will go on.

What was the motive?

Zitat

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French prosecutors opened an investigation into "voluntary manslaughter" on Monday after a Catholic priest was murdered in the western region of Vendée.
"No terrorist motive" appears in the case, Vice-Prosecutor Yannick Le Goater told reporters after the suspect, who handed himself to police, was placed in custody.
The suspect, Emmanuel Abayisenga, was already under investigation for setting a fire to the Cathedral of Nantes where he worked as a volunteer a year ago, Interior Minister Gérald Darmanin said.

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https://www.euronews.com/2021/08/09/cath...terior-minister