Vejleå Church in Ishøj Vandalized with Islamist Graffiti

Country: Denmark

Date of incident: April 12, 2020


On April 12th, the Vejleå Church in Ishøj was vandalized with phrases such as, "We conquer Denmark," and, in Arabic, "There is no God but Allah."

A video of the graffiti was posted on YouTube by press foto dk.

The Copenhagen Vestegns Police opened an investigation of the incident and called for witness assistance:

"The vandalism was committed at ca. 0330 Sunday, April 12, 2020. Here, a person in dark clothing moved along the path system at Spolestræde and Ishøj Boulevard to Vejleå Church and committed the vandalism.

He was briefly interrupted in his act when a light passenger car passed the light signal on Ishøj Stationsvej. Unfortunately, the person cannot be described in detail."

“We have surveillance pictures in the case, but based on them the gender of the perpetrator cannot even be determined, and therefore it does not make sense to publish the pictures. But the case is still at an early stage and we hope that through this investigation as well as interrogations and other investigations we can arrest the perpetrator,” said Deputy Police Inspector Peter Malmose.

The church had been previously vandalized in 2015.

Source & photo: Den Korte Avis