In mid-August, teenagers smashed four of the non-figurative stained glass windows in the church at Ordonnaz in the Ain department with stones. A parishioner expressed shock about the incident.
Source: lavoixdelain.fr
Church windows smashed
Case information
- Incident date
- Country
- France
- Place
- Ordonnaz
- 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
- Lack of Other Motive
- Significance of Property/Structure/Location to religious community
- Reported to Police
- Yes
- Response of Local Authorities
- Investigated