Anti-Christian Tags on Church, Statue of the Virgin and War Memorial

Case information
Incident date
Country
France
Place
Toulouse
Categories
  • Social Hostility / Intolerance
Attack Against
  • Faith
Perpetrator / Motive Indicators
  • Private
Hate Crime & Violent Incidents
  • Vandalism (all)
  • Vandalism of Christian Building (other)
  • Vandalism of Church
  • Vandalism of Public Christian Symbol
Place of Incident
  • Christian Building
  • Church
  • Public Christian Symbol (outside place of worship)
Bias Indicators
  • Significance of Property/Structure/Location to religious community
Reported to Police
  • Yes
Response of Local Authorities
  • Investigated
Image credit: Ladepeche.fr

Unknown vandals tagged the walls of the church of Saint-Martin-duTouch, the statue of the Virgin, and the war memorial with insulting writings. On the wall of the bell tower, they wrote "fuck Jesus", and on the Statue of the Virgin obscene writings and signatures were found. Jean-Jacques Bolzan, the neighborhood mayor and deputy mayor of Toulouse said this was a severe attack and commented: "with our CCTV cameras, I hope we can identify the authors of these tags. Of course, we will not stop there".

A nearby resident believes the perpetrators "are surely kids from the neighborhood, but it is not very clear what message they want to convey”.

Source: Ladepeche.fr