There is no way to determine the motive of the perpetrator from the report below. He could be legitimately mentally ill. However, France has had mentally ill people for centuries. They don’t generally vandalize churches.
The article says that the attacker has been described as “a thin man of African type with short hair measuring 1m90.” Now what kind of African might regard churches as abominations, places of idolatry that should be destroyed? There are some indications from the relatively recent past. In Spain in 2015, Muslims broke into a church, spray-painted “Allah” on wall, and destroyed the crucifix. In Pakistan in 2014, Muslims destroyed a church that was under construction, and desecrated the cross. When the Islamic State occupied Mosul, it made destruction of all crosses in the city a top priority.
Islam is not a race and there are Muslims from all races, but Europe is busy bringing in huge numbers of Muslim “refugees,” among whom are knowable numbers of jihadis. Many of these will be “African types” who consider churches to be an offense to Allah. Some of these will think that they can please Allah by destroying such abominations.
“Paris: Damage In the Saint-Eustache Church, the Profile of the Perpetrator is Clarified,” translated from “Paris : Des Dégradations dans L’Église Saint-Eustache, Le Profil de l’auteur se Précise,” CNews, March 3, 2023:
This Thursday, March 2, a man committed damage to the Saint-Eustache church, located in the 1st arrondissement of Paris. He smashed the protective glass of the brocade of the celebratory altar in the choir of the monument, with a fire extinguisher. He is currently wanted, but his profile becomes clearer as the investigation progresses.
Damage to one of the largest churches in Paris. This Thursday March 2, it is the monument dedicated to Saint-Eustache, in the 1st arrondissement of the capital, which was targeted by an individual. Yves Tcheris, priest of the Oratory, explains on the monument’s Instagram account that the man broke the protective glass of the brocade of the celebration altar, with a fire extinguisher.
“It seems useful to me to specify that, following this malicious action, the altar can no longer be used until a repair celebration has taken place,” specifies Yves Tcheris.
THE SUSPECT ALREADY VANDALIZED A CHURCH
According to a source relayed by the CNEWS police-justice service, the sexton saw the suspect flee. He was able to draw a detailed portrait of him to the investigators, namely a thin man of African type with short hair measuring 1m90.The suspect’s modus operandi for the misdeeds observed on Thursday would be comparable to that of the Saint-François-Xavier church (Paris 7th arrondissement), where damage had been committed on Tuesday, February 28.
The man of faith filed a complaint for the act of vandalism committed on Thursday. The technical and scientific police took fingerprints within the church to confirm the leads of the investigation.
PARISIAN CHURCHES ALREADY TARGETED IN JANUARY
Parisian churches had been the target, in January, of attempted fires. The Catholic places of worship concerned were Saint-Laurent (10th arrondissement), Notre-Dame-de-Fatima (19th arrondissement) and Saint-Martin-des-Champs (3rd arrondissement). A man of Ukrainian origin had been arrested and admitted to the psychiatric infirmary of the police headquarters.Last December, the Saint-Roch church (1st arrondissement) had meanwhile been the target of conspiratorial inscriptions.
Jim says
For over a millennium Islam conquered countries and imposed despotic theocracies. Now it is harder for them to do this, so they resort to terrorism and demoralizing countries. This is just a further example. The Leftists and do-gooders who want more cheap labor or want to virtue signal welcome them in and apologize for their behavior. But this helps them move toward their goal of domination. Could France become like South Africa? The black population, which has the majority got civil rights with the aid of anti-Apartheid boycotts, and now that they control the parliament, there is a lot of crime, and they want to take away the farms owned by descendants of the Dutch settlers. Sometimes with terrorist tactics. Could France someday go through the same sort of takeover by Islam? First a Muslim majority arises through immigration and high birthrates. They they demand equal rights, and finally they take away the rights of non-Muslims and impose sharia. Or maybe it will all work out.
kq6kq6kq6 says
“Or maybe it will all work out.”
Only when the Ann Coulter plan is implemented. That will probably only happy at the Second Coming.
kq6kq6kq6 says
Correction: I meant “…only happen at the Second Coming.”
wpm says
If and when the vandal is caught will he be deported? The answer is no, will he face a long prison sentence ?The answer will be no ,he will be labeled mentally ill. Will the police look to ties to other Jihadist living in France being friends or relatives to this man? The answer will be no. Will France solve the Jihadist problem ,the problem of high welfare fraud, high sexual attacks rates, “child brides” pimps grooming non-Moslem girls ,stupid vandalism of Christian churches? The answer is no not with the current people running the country of France refuse to see the problem that Islam and Jihad bring with the importation of third world Moslems. Which have nothing to offer the west and refuse to accept common laws and cultural of western civilization. Who main mission according to their religious beliefs is to enslave us or kill us. They start this with fear first, vandalism ,Jihad violence advances and gets worst when the problem is not addressed ..
OLD GUY says
Let’s see if he burned a Quran he would not be mentally ill, he would be Islamophobic. But because he Vandalized a Christian Church no big deal, he probably is mentally ill. The migration invasion of islam is alive and well.
Valhella says
In a nutshell Old Guy!
Linde B. says
Many of the churches in various neighborhoods of Paris, France are
very, very old and very, very beautiful.
In my opinion, the Roman Catholic
Church should hire 2 or 3 people to
be in each of these old churches every
day that these churches are open. These
employees would be “greeters” with
walkie-talkies who would be trained to
alert the police if a vandalism attack
occurs. These greeters would also be
on hand to witness an attack (God forbid)
of a priest or assistant. The salary paid
by the church would not be too much to protect religious freedom and a civilized
society. We should all pray for this “church
protective witness” idea to happen. + ?