Anarchist Protesters Disrupt Divine Liturgy

Case information
Incident date
Country
Greece
Categories
  • Social Hostility / Intolerance
Attack Against
  • Faith
Perpetrator / Motive Indicators
  • Anti-Religion or Humanism Groups
  • Private
  • Radical Left
Hate Crime & Violent Incidents
  • Insult or Incitement
Religious Freedom / Discrimination
  • Freedom of Religion

A group of about 25 people burst into the church of Saint Gregory Palamas in Thessaloniki, disrupting the Divine Liturgy (Eucharistic service of the Byzantine Rite) throwing leaflets protesting against the expulsion of refugees and migrants. The protesters clashed with those present in the church. Riot police made more than ​​twenty arrests.

Source: Orthodoxie