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Priest killed in Vendée: the inhabitants between emotion and anger

2021-08-09T20:09:00.662Z


REPORT - In Saint-Laurent-sur-Sèvre, where the priest Olivier Maire was responsible for a community advocating hospitality and charity, the inhabitants are in shock.


You are guilty, Mr. Darmanin. What is the next step ? Going to mass with a bulletproof vest ?!

», Cries Thibault, come to express his anger in front of the monastery in Saint-Laurent-sur-Sèvre (Vendée), after the assassination of Father Olivier Maire, superior of the congregation of Monfortains. A little earlier in the morning, around 9.15 am, Emmanuel Abayiesenga, suspected of having burned down the basilica of Nantes in 2020, went to the Mortagne-sur-Sèvre gendarmerie. He travels these few kilometers in a Citroën C1 belonging to the congregation and asks to be put in prison. "

He then hands over two keys, that of the car and that of a room in which the body of Father Olivier Maire was located.

», Relates Yannick Le Goater, deputy prosecutor of La Roche-sur-Yon.

The priest died between late Sunday evening and Monday morning, he said.

An investigation was opened by the deputy prosecutor of La Roche-sur-Yon, Yannick Le Goater.

Amaury Coutansais-Pervinquière - Le Figaro


Father Olivier had asked if we could accommodate him.

Emmanuel did not do much, sometimes he participated

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Source: lefigaro

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