They attacked cell towers out of hostility to the deployment of 5G. Two monks from a fundamentalist convent in the Rhône were indicted last week, we learned from judicial sources on Monday, September 20.
According to the Villefranche-sur-Saône prosecutor’s office, confirming information from the regional daily Progress, the two men, aged 39 and 40, admitted to having set fire to a first telephone pylon, on the night of September 14 to 15, in Saint-Forgeux, north-west of Lyon. The damage had been limited.
The following night, the two monks, members of a convent located in Beaujolais, were arrested in flagrante delicto by the gendarmes, while they were trying to set fire to an antenna in another town, in Ancy.
“Protecting the population from the harmful effects” of 5G
Placed in police custody and then presented to an examining magistrate, they admitted the facts, explaining that they had acted “To protect the population from harmful effects” 5G, said Villefranche prosecutor Laëtitia Francart.
Indicted for “destruction and attempted destruction by incendiary means” and “criminal association”, the two monks were placed under judicial supervision.
They are part of a Capuchin community based at the Saint-François convent in Villié-Morgon, attached to the fundamentalist movement of the Priestly Fraternity of Saint Pius X, according to its website.
According to Progress, a spokesperson for the convent mentioned “An isolated act and a youthful error”. “The waves are very harmful to health and they wanted to act for the well-being of humanity”, she told the newspaper.