In mid-September, one of the three Rogation Crosses in Saussines, a town northeast of Montpellier on the road to Ales, was vandalized. The perpetrator remains unknown. The act shocked the locals and the faithful.
Source: midilibre.fr
Rogation Cross in Saussines Vandalized
Case information
- Incident date
- Country
- France
- Place
- Saussines
- Categories
- Social Hostility / Intolerance
- Attack Against
- Faith
- Perpetrator / Motive Indicators
- Private
- Hate Crime & Violent Incidents
- Vandalism of Public Christian Symbol
- Intolerance towards Religious Symbols
- Religious Freedom / Discrimination
- Censorship or Removal of Public Christian Symbols
- Place of Incident
- Public Christian Symbol (outside place of worship)
- Bias Indicators
- Significance of Property/Structure/Location to religious community
- Reported to Police
- Unknown
- Response of Local Authorities
- Unknown