Religious Statue Vandalised at Bois‑le‑Roi Cemetery

Country: France

Date of incident: February 18, 2026


Police investigated extensive damage to Christian funerary structures at the Bois‑le‑Roi cemetery, including the destruction of a statue of Mary and chapel stained glass windows.

Fontainebleau police investigated acts of vandalism at the Bois‑le‑Roi cemetery in Seine‑et‑Marne, where unknown individuals damaged Christian funerary elements, including stained‑glass windows in a chapel linked to a tomb and a marble statue of Mary.

The incident occurred at the cemetery grounds and caused an estimated €30,000 in damage. Officers collected traces and physical clues at the site to determine how the perpetrators entered and carried out the destruction. While no motives have been established the targeted objects were explicitly Christian.

Source: Evasionfm, actu.fr

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