Vandalism Against Wayside Crosses and Corpusses

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

In the Swiss village of St. Pantaleon-Nuglar, unknown perpetrators have attacked Christian images several times. Corpusses were pulled off crosses, taken away or destroyed. One corpus was hung on a tree. Now, the image of a naked woman was sprayed on a cross which had formally been vandalised and stripped of the corpus. A charge against unknown persons was submitted by by the private owner of the wayside cross.

Sources (in German): http://www.kath.net/detail.php?id=33846 http://m.solothurnerzeitung.ch/news.htm?countPos=1&textPos=0&newsPos=115576000&cat=solothurn&&imgID=2

http://www.solothurnerzeitung.ch/solothurn/ein-serientaeter-geht-in-nuglar-jesus-an-die-kehle-115576000