Chapel targeted: Cross broken off

Case information
Incident date
Country
Poland
Place
Krakow
Categories
  • Social Hostility / Intolerance
Attack Against
  • Faith
Perpetrator / Motive Indicators
  • Private
Hate Crime & Violent Incidents
  • Vandalism (all)
  • Vandalism of Chapel
Place of Incident
  • Chapel
Bias Indicators
  • Lack of Other Motive
  • Pattern or Frequency of Attacks
  • Significance of Property/Structure/Location to religious community
Reported to Police
  • Yes
Response of Local Authorities
  • Investigated
Image credit: Laboratorium Wolnosci Religijnej

On the night of April 4-5, 2023, the chapel of St. John of Nepomuk located at Odmętowa Street in Krakow was targeted by vandals. They tore off the cross held in the hands of the statue of the saint, thereby damaging the hand of the statue.

This was the latest devastation of the chapel. Around the year 2000, vandals tore off part of Saint John's hand and threw the cross into a nearby reservoir.

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