Church Equipped With Security Cameras Following Desecration
Case information
Incident date
Country
Italy
Place
Montefiascone
Categories
Social Hostility / Intolerance
Attack Against
Faith
Perpetrator / Motive Indicators
Private
Hate Crime & Violent Incidents
Desecration
Vandalism (all)
Vandalism of Church
Religious Freedom / Discrimination
Other (text field)
Place of Incident
Church
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: Enken-1998 on Unsplash
On the 28th August, the Mayor Massimo Paolini announced the installation of surveillance cameras in the Church of Our Lady of the Arc to control security and prevent vandalism, which has been targeting the church in the past months, including trashing and graffiti with satanic motives.