Vandalism with rubbish and excrement at Church in Lucerne

Case information
Incident date
Country
Switzerland
Place
Lucerne
Categories
  • Social Hostility / Intolerance
Attack Against
  • Faith
Perpetrator / Motive Indicators
  • Private
Hate Crime & Violent Incidents
  • Physical Violence
  • Vandalism (all)
  • Vandalism of Church
Place of Incident
  • Church
Bias Indicators
  • Comments/Written Statements/Gestures/Graffiti
  • Significance of Property/Structure/Location to religious community
Reported to Police
  • Unknown
Response of Local Authorities
  • Unknown

On the 30th of May, the online news site Kath.ch reported that the front of St. Luke's Church in Lucerne, had been vandalised by people leaving rubbish and excrement.

The Jesuit Father Hansruedi Kleiber also reported exprerieces of phsical violence. "It has happened to me once or twice that visitors, whom I have pointed out their misbehaviour, have come at me with their fists," Kleiber says.

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