(AFP) French police are holding a man of Afghan nationality after a prominent activist in the north of France who helped migrants was bludgeoned to death at his home, prosecutors said Wednesday.
The attacker entered the home of Jean Dussine in Bretteville, just outside the northern port city of Cherbourg, before hitting him repeatedly with a blunt object.
Cherbourg prosecutor Yves Le Clair told AFP that the attacker appeared to have come to Dussine’s home with the specific intention of killing him.
The suspect has confessed but “has given no information on what motivated his actions or on his relationship to the victim,” Le Clair said.
