Unknown Perpetrators Damaged Protestant Church in Usingen

Case information
Incident date
Country
Germany
Place
Usingen
Categories
  • Social Hostility / Intolerance
Attack Against
  • Faith
Perpetrator / Motive Indicators
  • Private
Hate Crime & Violent Incidents
  • Vandalism (all)
  • Vandalism of Church
Religious Freedom / Discrimination
  • Freedom of Religion
Place of Incident
  • Church
Bias Indicators
  • 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: Beth Macdonald on Unsplash

Between Monday 16th and Tuesday 17th unknown vandals broke a window on the west side of the Protestant Laurentius church in Usingen. They also damaged two glass doors on the tower portal, but they failed to destroy them completely.

"The current damage to property unfortunately shows that vandals do not stop at churches. When our church was still regularly open outside of events, we unfortunately had a case of vandalism in the church interior as well. So we could only keep the church open if it was staffed by a supervisor. Unfortunately, this is not possible at the moment (becuase of the corona cisis)." said Pastor Dr Wahl.

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