Several Statues Vandalized over Ten Days in Lyon Churches

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

On March 22nd, several statues of St. Joseph, located in the chapel of Notre-Dame-des-Neiges and the church of Saint-Pothin, were destroyed by vandals.

Two people praying in church reported seeing a person wearing a hood, who fled from the scene. About ten days earlier, a wooden statue of the Madonna and Child was torn from its base in Saint-Pothin, but was unbroken and thus returned to the base.
Following these facts of vandalism, a complaint was filed by the leaders of both parishes.

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