"Christians Into Hell" Tag on St. Andrew's Church in Vienna
Case information
Incident date
Country
Austria
Place
Vienna
Categories
Social Hostility / Intolerance
Attack Against
Faith
Perpetrator / Motive Indicators
Radical Left
Hate Crime & Violent Incidents
Vandalism (all)
Vandalism of Church
Religious Freedom / Discrimination
Other (text field)
Bias Indicators
Comments/Written Statements/Gestures/Graffiti
Reported to Police
Yes
Response of Local Authorities
Investigated
Symbolic image; not a photograph of the reported incident.Image credit: Jacek Dylag on Unsplash
On November 6th, the gate of the St. Andrew's Church in Vienna was smeared by unknown perpetrators with an anti-Christian inscription: "Christians into hell". According to "Heute" Newspaper, there was a signature from "Antifa 24", an organization that doesn't exist anymore. The spokesman of the police, Markus Dittrich, said that the perpetrator will be charged with serious damage to property and the Office for the Protection of the Constitution is leading an investigation. This occurred in the same week as the terror-attack in Vienna, were four innocent people were killed by a perpetrator pledging allegiance to the Islamic State.
