Blasphemous Attack against Church on Maundy Thursday

Case information
Incident date
Country
France
Categories
  • Social Hostility / Intolerance
Attack Against
  • Faith
Perpetrator / Motive Indicators
  • Private
Hate Crime & Violent Incidents
  • Insult or Incitement
  • Intolerance towards Religious Symbols
Religious Freedom / Discrimination
  • Negative Stereotyping
Image credit: Christianophobie.fr

During Maundy Thursday a young woman enter the Saint-Bruno Church, Bordeaux France, and pulled down her trousers and showed her stomach where she had painted a word in the color red. She then proceeded to proudly post the pictures of this blasphemous attack on her Facebook profile.

She has since removed the pictures from her Facebook profile and on info-Bordeaux article she commented with an apology and the explanation that the pictures were taken for a contest.

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