A local resident said these threatening messages have sent chills down his spine. "This is quite a trauma for our community," he said.
Since the beginning of the year, at least five other large public crosses (or calvary) have been marked with similar Islamic warnings and threats in France. "It's strange in such a small town," said the mayor of Clermont d'Excideuil, the target of the latest anti-Christian attack, adding: "I thought this could only happen elsewhere."
On March 1, around 40 gravestones were desecrated and vandalized in another cemetery in Freselines. On March 26, an important public cross that had stood for generations in the village of Lias was found broken into four pieces.
"Leila, 21, was planning to attack worshippers at a church in Beziers with a sword on Easter Day when she was arrested. She is currently on trial in Paris for conspiracy to commit terrorist offences," says another report, which adds that
police found photos of decapitated bodies and videos of beheadings and the preparation of acid bombs in her home.
The 21-year-old woman's notebook contained the following note:
I have an ever-increasing desire to go out into the street, slit the throat of the first person who walks by, drag his body into the woods, smash his skull with an iron bar or hammer, and then return to look for someone else. I've learned to cut throats, so it probably won't be a problem.
On March 12, another unknown woman, aged 39, burst into a church during morning mass, waving a knife and threatening worshippers. She was diagnosed with schizophrenia and taken to the hospital. The church has been the scene of arson attacks and is located near an area where three teenagers once violently attacked two others with tear gas, calling them "dirty Christians".
Cover photo: Illustration (Photo: MTI/Zsolt Czegledi)
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