Church smeared with hateful graffiti

Case information
Incident date
Country
Norway
Place
Buskerud
Categories
  • Social Hostility / Intolerance
Attack Against
  • Faith
Perpetrator / Motive Indicators
  • Private
Hate Crime & Violent Incidents
  • Vandalism (all)
  • Vandalism of Church
Place of Incident
  • Church
Bias Indicators
  • Comments/Written Statements/Gestures/Graffiti
  • Significance of Property/Structure/Location to religious community
  • Victim/Witness Perception
Reported to Police
  • Unknown
Response of Local Authorities
  • Unknown

Heggen Church in Buskerud was vandalised. The church is located in Vikersund, where there has been a very tense atmosphere in the last two weeks after a serious incident of violence in the village.

Someone smeared the walls of the medieval church.

‘Words that aren't compatible with the message we want to convey were written on two of the walls in heavy black paint,' the pastor said.

She doesn't want to say anything more about the content that was written, but the text is obviously linked to tonight's cancelled torchlight procession in Vikersund, which was to have been arranged after the recent unrest in the village.

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