Unknown persons vandalize and set fire to church in Germany

Country: Germany

Date of incident: November 2, 2022


An employee of the parish had unlocked the 700-year-old house of worship on Wednesday morning (2.11.2022), 8 o'clock. When he returned to the church around 11 a.m., he noticed that several stacks of brochures on a table in the church were on fire. "It was only by chance and the quick and courageous intervention of a church employee that the church in Helmstedt did not go up in flames". The regionalHeute.de news source reported the incident.

Source: regionalheute.de

Photo: braunschweiger-zeitung.de