Case information
Incident date Feb 3, 2020
Country France
Place Toulouse Categories Social Hostility / Intolerance Perpetrator / Motive Indicators Anti-Religion or Humanism Groups Radical Left Hate Crime & Violent Incidents Desecration Vandalism (all) Vandalism of Church Insult or Incitement Religious Freedom / Discrimination Bias Indicators Comments/Written Statements/Gestures/Graffiti Significance of Property/Structure/Location to religious community Response of Local Authorities Case information
Incident date Feb 3, 2020
Country France
Place Toulouse Categories Social Hostility / Intolerance Perpetrator / Motive Indicators Anti-Religion or Humanism Groups Radical Left Hate Crime & Violent Incidents Desecration Vandalism (all) Vandalism of Church Insult or Incitement Religious Freedom / Discrimination Bias Indicators Comments/Written Statements/Gestures/Graffiti Significance of Property/Structure/Location to religious community Response of Local Authorities Symbolic image; not a photograph of the reported incident. Image credit: Vadim Fomenok on Unsplash On Monday February 3rd, the church of Saint-François de Paule in Toulouse, was defaced with anarchist and anti-clerical tags. The vandals smeared the façade of the church with graffiti that contained slogans such as "The only church that illuminates is the one that burns" and "ACAB." The police opened an investigation.
