14th Century Church Vandalized with Red Paint
During the night of November 22, 2016, two people threw red paint against the facade and one of the entrances of the parish of Santa Creu, one of the oldest in Palma. Costs to clean the damage is unclear. Perpetrators justified the attack as denouncing the "historical collaboration" of the Catholic Church with fascism.
The perpetrators of the attack released a video in which the complete sequence of the incident could be followed. They attempted to justify this act of vandalism by noting that a day before, on November 21, a Mass had been held in the church of Santa Creu in memory of the Head of State between 1939 and 1975, Francisco Franco, and the founder of Spanish Falange, José Antonio Primo de Rivera. The Mass had been requested by the Francisco Franco Foundation.
The objective of the attack on the parish was to denounce the alleged "historical collaboration" of the Catholic Church with "fascism." For its part, the Association for the Revitalization of Old Centers (ARCA) issued a statement in which it expressed its "total condemnation" for what happened. It also recalled that the parish is listed as a registered property with maximum protection by the Palma City Council and has also been declared a place of cultural interest since 1976.
Source: ABC.es