African "refugee" jailed for setting fire to Nantes cathedral is released, stabs priest to death

Disturbing news today from France. Agence France Presse. reports that a Rwandan "refugee" suspected of causing a major fire that ravaged the Nantes cathedral last year murdered Father Olivier Mairein in the Vendée region yesterday.

On his way to the town of Mortagne-sur-Sevre, the scene of the dastardly attack, French Interior Minister Gerald Darmanin tweeted, "All my support for the Catholics of our country after the dramatic murder of a priest in the Vendee region." The effect was rather spoiled, though, when he answered the question of why the "refugee" was still in France by saying he couldn't be deported "while he was still under judicial control." 

Say what? The man, identified as Emmanuel Abayisenga, from Rwanda, was already under judicial control over a horrific fire at the historic Nantes cathedral in July 2020, to which he had confessed. Apparently the asylum-seeker (for such he was) had been in living in France for several years -- one of the great wave who came via Angela Merkel's Germany in 2015 -- and had worked as a volunteer at the religious community of Mortagne-sur-Sèvre. 

Inspector Clouseau, of the local police, said M Abayisenga had turned up at the police station, saying he had killed a priest. The victim of a brutal stabbing was Fr Olivier Mairein, aged 60, who had sheltered the "refugee" after he was released from arrest following the cathedral fire. 

Marine Le Pen, leader of le Front National, said that in France "you can be an illegal migrant, set fire to a cathedral, not be expelled and then reoffend by murdering a priest." Nothing like that would ever happen in the AABC countries -- America, Australia, Britain, Canada -- would it? Well... would it?!