In addition to these tags, a trash fire was lit in front of the door of the Sacré-Coeur church in Bordeaux on Sunday evening. Christopher Schmidt / All Rights Reserved
A dozen tags were inscribed on Sunday evening on the Sacré-Coeur church in Bordeaux. A fire was even lit in its forecourt.
Le Figaro Bordeaux
“Lucifer rightly”, “Devil, take me with you”, “Thank you Satan”. The tags stand out in red letters on the walls of the Church of the Sacred Heart in Bordeaux, defaced with a marker or maybe even lipstick. Above the reference to the song by Léo Ferré surmounted by a circled A, a sign of recognition of the anarchists, we can still read:Burn it all for free“. A declaration followed by an intention: the authors of these degradations also lit a fire of rubbish under the porch of the religious building. The flames, quickly extinguished by the firefighters, did not have time to damage it.
The perpetrators of these deteriorations also desecrated its interior. “Everything is crumbling, but we have to spread the word” And “n*** your motherwere written in a round script on a wooden door, while the facade shows another degradation aimed directly at the Gare Saint-Jean district. “The neighbors hate the Church“, thus advances an inscription on this parish located 92 meters from the John Paul II center. The diocese of Bordeaux, which lodged a complaint against X, “shares the emotion of the faithful Catholics and the inhabitants shocked by his actions“.
An investigation has been opened by the Departmental Directorate of Public Security, which suspects excesses linked to alcohol consumption. Surveillance cameras must be operated and neighbors questioned.
One of the tags explicitly states that the church disturbs in the Bordeaux district of Saint-Jean station. Christopher Schmidt / All Rights Reserved
“Pierre Hurmic is moved by acts of vandalism”
The municipality of Bordeaux reacted to these desecrations indicating in a press release that “Pierre Hurmic is moved by the acts of vandalism and degradation perpetrated last night on the Church of the Sacred Heart“. The mayor of Bordeaux sent Laurent Guillemin, his worship assistant, “with Father Benoît Davos in order to provide him with the support of the City“. A few hours earlier, the prefect of Gironde, Étienne Guyot denounced on Twitter “hateful tags and intolerable acts“.
TO HAVE ALSO – This church was saved in part thanks to donations