Sudanese Man Kills French Immigration Official After Asylum Bid Rejected

Police officers stand at the entrance of the Isard COS Reception Center for Asylum Seekers (CADA) in Pau, where a manager has been stabbed to death by an asylum seeker in Pau, southwestern france, on Feb. 19, 2021. The victim, a 46-year-old father, was stabbed to death by a Sudanese man whose asylum application had just been refused, according to French police. Gaizka Iroz/AFP via Getty Images

PARIS—A Sudanese asylum seeker stabbed and killed an employee at a migrant center in the southern French city of Pau on Friday after his request for political asylum was rejected, authorities said.

The killer had no terrorist motives, the Pau prosecutor said on Saturday.