Passion Trail Vandalised

Case information
Incident date
Country
Germany
Place
Haspe
Categories
  • Social Hostility / Intolerance
Attack Against
  • Faith
Perpetrator / Motive Indicators
  • Private
Hate Crime & Violent Incidents
  • Vandalism (all)
  • Vandalism of Public Christian Symbol
  • Intolerance towards Religious Symbols
Place of Incident
  • Public Christian Symbol (outside place of worship)
Bias Indicators
  • Lack of Other Motive
  • Pattern or Frequency of Attacks
  • Significance of Property/Structure/Location to religious community
  • Time/Place/Location
  • Victim/Witness Perception
Reported to Police
  • Unknown
Response of Local Authorities
  • Unknown
Image credit: Evangelische Kirchengemeinde Haspe (Karin Thoma-Zimmermann)

The Passion Trail set up by the Evangelical Lutheran parish in Hagen-Haspe has been demolished. The path, which was lined with crosses and prayer texts, led along the forest path at Tücking.

The parish states on its website: "As the crosses and information boards have been vandalised several times in recent days and removed, damaged or soiled, the team that planned and set up "Crosses on the Path" decided to collect the objects and reassemble them at the chapel." "Fortunately, we found everything again and brought it to the chapel in a big community effort," says Hans-Peter Schlien from the organising team."

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