Vandalism Against Wayside Crosses and Corpusses

Country: Switzerland

Date of incident: November 7, 2011


In the Swiss village of St. Pantaleon-Nuglar, unknown perpetrators have attacked Christian images several times. Corpusses were pulled off crosses, taken away or destroyed. One corpus was hung on a tree. Now, the image of a naked woman was sprayed on a cross which had formally been vandalised and stripped of the corpus. A charge against unknown persons was submitted by by the private owner of the wayside cross.

Sources (in German): http://www.kath.net/detail.php?id=33846 http://m.solothurnerzeitung.ch/news.htm?countPos=1&textPos=0&newsPos=115576000&cat=solothurn&&imgID=2

http://www.solothurnerzeitung.ch/solothurn/ein-serientaeter-geht-in-nuglar-jesus-an-die-kehle-115576000