Religious Statues Spray-Painted at Site Dedicated to the Virgin Mary

Case information
Incident date
Country
France
Categories
  • Social Hostility / Intolerance
Attack Against
  • Faith
Perpetrator / Motive Indicators
  • Private
Hate Crime & Violent Incidents
  • Vandalism (all)
  • Insult or Incitement
  • Intolerance towards Religious Symbols

Several religious statues, among which Jesus Christ was central, as well as a commemorative plaque and the floor were all spray painted red in a grotto altar in Libaux.

One month after the November attacks in Paris, a resident of Lessard-en-Bresse went to the grotto of Libaux to pray and discovered the vandalism. The town has filed a complaint and is preparing, in cooperation with the parish priest of Sainte Trinité en Bresse, to rehabilitate the site, which was erected in 1950 in memory of the Virgin Mary.
Source and photos: Le Journal de Saône-et-Loire