PARIS (AFP) - A man suspected of causing a major fire that ravaged the cathedral in the French city of Nantes last year murdered a Catholic priest in western France on Monday (Aug 9), the interior minister and a source close to the investigation said.

       "All my support for the Catholics of our country after the dramatic murder of a priest in the Vendee region," Interior Minister Gerald Darmanin wrote on Twitter, saying he was heading to the scene.

       A source close to the investigation, who asked not to be named, said a man had earlier gone to police in the town of Mortagne-sur-Sevre and declared he had killed a priest.

       The man was already under judicial control over the fire at Nantes Cathedral in July 2020, the source added.

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