Church Crèche Vandalized Three Times Around Christmas

Case information
Incident date
Country
France
Place
Dijon
Categories
  • Social Hostility / Intolerance
Attack Against
  • Faith
Perpetrator / Motive Indicators
  • Private
Hate Crime & Violent Incidents
  • Vandalism (all)
  • Vandalism of Public Christian Symbol
Place of Incident
  • Christian Holiday Display / Celebration
Bias Indicators
  • Significance of Property/Structure/Location to religious community
  • Time/Place/Location
Reported to Police
  • Unknown
Response of Local Authorities
  • Unknown

The nativity scene installed in front of the Notre-Dame church of Dijon was vandalized with litter and garbage bags three times between December 20th and 25th.

According to reports, the Dijon crèche is not the only one to have been vandalized. In Saint-éloy-les-Mines, in Puy-de-Dôme, figurines were beheaded in mid-December. A few days earlier, a representation of a living crèche had been disrupted in Toulouse (Haute-Garonne) by demonstrators defining themselves as "anticapitalists".

Sources: La Croix and Facebook Page of Father émmanuel Pic (photo)

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