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Assassination of Father Olivier Maire: "French bankruptcy"

2021-08-09T17:59:33.351Z


The editorial of Le Figaro, by Yves Thréard. A priest was killed in Vendée. Her killer, already prosecuted for setting fire to Nantes cathedral last year, surrendered on his own. Now is the time for prayer and meditation among Catholics, already hard hit by Islamic terrorism. In 2016, Father Jacques Hamel was slaughtered in his church in Saint-Étienne-du-Rouvray, in Seine-Maritime. Last October, an attack caused the death of two faithful and


A priest was killed in Vendée.

Her killer, already prosecuted for setting fire to Nantes cathedral last year, surrendered on his own.

Now is the time for prayer and meditation among Catholics, already hard hit by Islamic terrorism.

In 2016, Father Jacques Hamel was slaughtered in his church in Saint-Étienne-du-Rouvray, in Seine-Maritime.

Last October, an attack caused the death of two faithful and of the sacristan of the basilica of Nice.

This time, Islamism is not at the origin of the drama.

The executioner of Olivier Maire is a Rwandan migrant of Catholic faith whom he had taken in out of generosity in the community of Montfortians, of which he was the superior father, in Saint-Laurent-sur-Sèvre.

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Beyond its motives, this tragedy arouses, and rightly so, indignation.

It never should have happened.

It illustrates, to the point of caricature, the bankruptcy of France in the fight against crime and illegal immigration.

Two subjects which,

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Source: lefigaro

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