Church Closed After Vandals Set Fire to the Pedestal of the Statue of San Vincenzo Next to the Church
Case information
Incident date
Country
Italy
Place
Cremnago
Categories
Social Hostility / Intolerance
Attack Against
Faith
Perpetrator / Motive Indicators
Private
Hate Crime & Violent Incidents
Arson
Vandalism (all)
Vandalism of Public Christian Symbol
Religious Freedom / Discrimination
Other (text field)
Place of Incident
Church
Bias Indicators
Pattern or Frequency of Attacks
Reported to Police
Unknown
Response of Local Authorities
Unknown
Symbolic image; not a photograph of the reported incident.Image credit: Igor Lepilin on Unsplash
On February 2nd, unknown persons set fire to the pedestal of the statue of San Vincenzo next to the San Vincenzo Church. San Vincenzo is the patron saint of the San Vincenzo Church in Cremnago. Some of the parish members saw the flames and other witnesses say they saw some boys running away from the church at the time of the crime. The damage to the statue, which was immediately taken to the sacristy, is fortunately not severe. After the incident the church decided to close its doors for a couple of days and only reopen during liturgical celebrations.
