Andancette Cemetery Vandalized

Case information
Incident date
Country
France
Place
Drôme
Categories
  • Social Hostility / Intolerance
Attack Against
  • Faith
Hate Crime & Violent Incidents
  • Vandalism (all)
  • Vandalism of Cemetery
Place of Incident
  • Cemetery
Bias Indicators
  • Comments/Written Statements/Gestures/Graffiti
Reported to Police
  • Unknown
Response of Local Authorities
  • Unknown
Symbolic image; not a photograph of the reported incident.Image credit: NotFromUtrecht / CC BY-SA (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0)

Several Christian graves were vandalized in the cemetery of Andancette. A family who went to the grave of a loved one noticed the damage and alerted the gendarmes on Sunday morning. According to the mayor of Andancette, "around fifteen graves have been damaged with crucifixes, gravestones and plaques broken."

"Attacking a cemetery is a cowardly, lamentable, despicable and incomprehensible gesture," said Andancette mayor Frédéric Chenevier. He filed a complaint for damages and invited the families who are victims of these acts of vandalism to do the same.

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