Unknown Perpetrators Tagg Church with Insults and Satanic Symbols

Case information
Incident date
Country
Germany
Place
Augsburg
Categories
  • Social Hostility / Intolerance
Attack Against
  • Faith
Perpetrator / Motive Indicators
  • Private
  • Satanist Symbols
Hate Crime & Violent Incidents
  • Desecration
  • Vandalism (all)
  • Vandalism of Church
  • Insult or Incitement
Place of Incident
  • Church
Bias Indicators
  • Comments/Written Statements/Gestures/Graffiti
Reported to Police
  • Yes
Response of Local Authorities
  • Investigated
Symbolic image; not a photograph of the reported incident.Image credit: Unsplash

In November 2022, there was an attack on a Catholic church in Augsburg, in the Oberhausen discritc. Unknown perpetrators threw eggs at the church of St. Peter and Paul and tagged it with graffiti. The graffiti said "F*CK JESUS", it also had a Satanic star and the number "666", which refers to the devil.

The police commented: "We cannot exclude the possibility of an offence, but we are not currently investigating a series of offences." After a similar case in the Augsburg cathedral in January 2023, the police said it was quite possible that someone in Oberhausen and at the Augsburg cathedral wanted to act out their "aggression, their displeasure against the church or faith".

In Oberhausen, the church community left a sign after the graffiti attack saying: "Who still writes on the wall today??? Why don't you write to us on Insta?"

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