(ANSA) - ROME, AUGUST 09 - The lifeless body of a priest was discovered this morning in Saint-Laurent-sur-Sèvre, in the Vendée, in western France.
This was communicated by the diocese and the endarmerie of Mortagne-sur-Sèvre, cited by the local media.
On Twitter, Interior Minister Gérard Darmanin announced that he is on his way to the place where the priest was "murdered".
According to France 3, the body was found on the report of a man who presented himself to the gendarmerie.
"A man presented himself in the morning to the gendarmerie of Mortagne-sur-Sèvre saying he had killed a cleric." A source close to the investigation into the alleged dead man in the Vendée, in western France, reports to the AFP. According to the same source, the man had been placed under judicial control as part of the investigation into the fire of the cathedral of Nantes in July 2020.
According to the far-right weekly Valeurs Actuelles, he was the Rwandan refugee Emmanuel Abayisenga who one year ago set fire to the cathedral: the man allegedly admitted that he had killed the priest who had welcomed him into his community of Saint-Laurent-sur-Sèvre, 60-year-old Olivier Maire. (HANDLE).