Repeated Vandalism Targets Parish and Priest

Case information
Incident date
Country
Italy
Place
Ponte di Piave
Categories
  • Social Hostility / Intolerance
Attack Against
  • Faith
Perpetrator / Motive Indicators
  • Private
Hate Crime & Violent Incidents
  • Vandalism (all)
  • Vandalism of Church
Place of Incident
  • Christian Building
  • Church
Bias Indicators
  • Lack of Other Motive
  • Pattern or Frequency of Attacks
  • Significance of Property/Structure/Location to religious community
  • Victim/Witness Perception
Reported to Police
  • Yes
Response of Local Authorities
  • Investigated
Symbolic image; not a photograph of the reported incident.Image credit: Pixabay

Eggs hurled at the parish house and sabotage of the priest’s car marked a renewed wave of anti-Christian hostility in the Treviso community.

On the night of November 7, 2025, unknown individuals threw eggs at the parish house of San Tommaso Apostolo in Ponte di Piave, replicating a similar attack from several months earlier. Parish priest Don Antonio Ziliotto also discovered potatoes stuffed into his car’s exhaust pipe, preventing it from starting. Locals, who bitterly refer to the ongoing incidents as a “never-ending story,” suspect a single perpetrator behind the repeated acts of vandalism.

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