Midnight Fire at St. Matthew's Church Treated as Arson
Case information
Incident date
Country
United Kingdom
Place
Derby
Categories
Social Hostility / Intolerance
Attack Against
Faith
Perpetrator / Motive Indicators
Private
Hate Crime & Violent Incidents
Arson
Vandalism (all)
Vandalism of Church
Religious Freedom / Discrimination
Other (text field)
Place of Incident
Church
Bias Indicators
Comments/Written Statements/Gestures/Graffiti
Pattern or Frequency of Attacks
Significance of Property/Structure/Location to religious community
Time/Place/Location
Reported to Police
Yes
Response of Local Authorities
Investigated
Symbolic image; not a photograph of the reported incident.Image credit: Matt Chesin on Unsplash
In the early morning of October 15th, a rescue team was called because the St. Matthew's Church in Derby was burning. The facade and the shed of the church suffered most of the damage. There have been another three attacks with arson in Derby in October: On the church in Quarndorn and two schools, the police has not yet found any evidence that would link these cases. The police is investigating.
