Church in Baden Baden Set on Fire and Smeared with Paint
Case information
Incident date
Country
Germany
Place
Baden-Baden
Categories
Social Hostility / Intolerance
Attack Against
Faith
Perpetrator / Motive Indicators
Private
Hate Crime & Violent Incidents
Arson
Desecration
Vandalism (all)
Vandalism of Church
Religious Freedom / Discrimination
Other (text field)
Place of Incident
Church
Bias Indicators
Comments/Written Statements/Gestures/Graffiti
Lack of Other Motive
Pattern or Frequency of Attacks
Reported to Police
Yes
Response of Local Authorities
Investigated
Symbolic image; not a photograph of the reported incident.Image credit: Gleb Lucky on Unsplash
Unknown perpetrators threw a flammable object through a smashed window of a side door into the St. Bernhard Church in Baden-Baden during the night of 25 March. According to the police, heavy smoke developed and spread into the church interior. In addition, the perpetrators smeared a two-by-two-metre sign on the side wall of the church, which, according to the parish priest's interpretation, could represent a Jewish Star of David. The police are investigating.
