Two Statues Destroyed at a Church in Haan

Country: Germany

Date of incident: September 25, 2013


During a fair in Haan (North Rhine-Westphalia), unknown perpetrators tore the cross with the figure of Jesus off the church of St. Chrysanthus and Daria, beheaded the figure and took the head away. The perpetrators also tore an arm off the figure of a bishop and threw the arm into the garden of the kindergarten next door. In the last ten years, the figure of Jesus has been destroyed three times.

Source: http://www.rp-online.de/nrw/staedte/hilden/ersatz-fuer-zerstoertes-kruzifix-schon-in-arbeit-aid-1.3700769