Swiss Voters Lead the Way on Rejecting Emission Curbs

The Goesgen nuclear power plant is seen near Daeniken on August 13, 2022. Switzerland could face electricity shortages this winter. Reduced gas supplies from Russia and offline French nuclear plants are to blame, as the country depends on European electricity imports over the winter months. Photo: Wikimedia Commons, Ch-info.ch, CC-BY-SA-3.0,2.5,2.0,1.0

After a set of strict emissions limits was voted down at the polls on Sunday, Switzerland’s Young Greens—who unsurprisingly brought the proposals forward—complained that “defenders of the status quo” had been victorious. Clearly, the opposite is the case: Swiss voters signaled a small yet decisive shift away from Europe’s destructive green drive.

Brussels is, however, more likely to pay attention to those Swiss lawmakers desperately searching for other ways to legislate ‘for the environment’—and, as issues surrounding the EU’s Green Deal show, against competitiveness.

Among other measures included in the ‘Environmental Responsibility’ proposals, voters rejected reducing greenhouse gases emitted through consumption to 10% of their 2018 levels within the next decade. Bloomberg says they did so—with 69.8% voting against, no less, and with none of the country’s 26 cantons voting in favour—because of “economic concerns.”

Social Democrat Linda De Ventura said the vote was “not a statement against climate protection,” while the Greens accused their opponents of “scaremongering” by emphasising economic issues rather than “planetary protection.” Swiss professor Stefan Legge added that proponents of the measures might actually have been happily expecting defeat,

Because even if they fail in a vote, this way you put a topic on the agenda.

Switzerland is already tied to ‘net zero’ by 2050 commitments, although this latest vote could suggest these will soon come under heavier scrutiny, too.

Lukas Golder, from the gfs.bern research institute, said that while this set of rejected environmental measures is popular among much of the Left, there is no such appetite for such “drastic” proposals across the wider population.

A higher proportion of voters rejected the measures than polls suggested ahead of Sunday. Golder’s comments suggest that had the turnout been higher than 38%—which is fairly low by Swiss standards—the margin against would have been greater still.

https://europeanconservative.com/articles/news/swiss-voters-lead-the-way-on-rejecting-emission-curbs/

Legos called ‘heteronormative,’ problematic

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By Eric Utter

According to the U.K. Telegraph, the group of U.K. museums known collectively as the Science Museum offer self-guided tours called ‘Seeing Things Queerly’ during which one can explore “stories of queer communities, experiences and identities.”

What else would one go to a museum to do?

The ‘tours’ are reportedly the creation of a group of staff and volunteers who identify as ‘the Gender and Sexuality Network.’

The most controversial aspect of the tour is a bucket of LEGO bricks presented alongside a warning that the toys may reinforce the apparently outdated notion that heterosexuality is somehow “the norm”:

Like other connectors and fasteners, Lego bricks are often described in a gendered way. The top of the brick with sticking out pins is male, the bottom of the brick with holes to receive the pins is female, and the process of the two sides being put together is called mating.

This is an example of applying heteronormative language to topics unrelated to gender, sex and reproduction. It illustrates how heteronormativity (the idea that heterosexuality and the male/female gender binary are the norm and everything that falls outside is unusual) shapes the way we speak about science, technology, and the world in general.

Let’s take the asininity from the top, shall we?

Seeing things clearly is far more important than “seeing things queerly.”

No matter how hard ideologues and advocates try, they can’t succeed in their goal of “queering everything.”

Sorry, you can’t make eggs queer. You can’t “queer” sand. Or your toaster. And wanting to do so is an admission that you need help.

“Male” and “female” exist regardless of one’s deepest desires or fevered fantasies. And that’s a good thing, too, because if they didn’t, no one would be here.

A rectangle is a rectangle and a circle is a circle, irrespective of what someone calls them. A chair is a chair, a rock is a rock, a knife is a knife, and so on … no matter what I deem “my truth.” And I am not a member of the opposite sex, an African-American, six-foot-five, or a German Shepherd simply because I claim to identify as such. I can bitch about being “assigned” human at birth, but that only pits me against my Creator.

Here is one definition of male, from the Merriam-Webster Dictionary: designed with a projecting part for fitting into a corresponding female part.

“Designed.” “With a projecting part for fitting into a corresponding female part.” Very simple. And supremely important. If Legos didn’t have male and female parts, they wouldn’t stick together, and the ‘buildings’ and ‘vehicles’ we build with them would fall apart. The same goes for robot or ‘human’ figures.

Legos wouldn’t be Legos without male and female parts.

Nor would people be people. You can try to take the person out of their gender, but you can’t take the gender out of the person.

https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2025/02/legos_called_heteronormative_problematic.html

Islamists disguise agitation event as sports event in Hamburg, Germany

The event was billed as a sporting event, but the Hamburg police didn’t believe it and turned up with a large contingent outside the gymnasium.

The officers rather suspected that a meeting of Islamists would take place in the gym in Ladenbeker Furtweg in Hamburg-Bergedorf on Saturday evening.
At around 9.25 pm, the police arrived with 18 police cars and several police dogs in front of gyms 1 and 2. Wearing protective clothing, the police entered the premises and surrounded the halls.

Both buildings were searched and the personal details of the 250 or so participants were taken.
The organiser had previously registered a sports event in the Bergedorf sports centre. On closer inspection by the investigating authorities, the suspicion arose that it could be a different event.

Which event it actually was in the end was not yet known on Sunday morning.

During the raid, the officers encountered considerable resistance. The LKA and state security have started investigations.

Polizei-Razzia in Hamburg: Verdacht auf Treffen von Islamisten in Sporthalle | Regional | BILD.de

The participants were released after their identities were established on site. Based on the personal connections established, it is likely that the event was Islamist in nature.

During the inspection of the property, the police found several knives that could not be attributed to any of the people present at the time.

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Multiple People Hospitalised After Stabbing Spree Attack in Dublin (Videos)

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Three people were hospitalized after a series of random stabbings in Dublin’s Stoneybatter neighborhood, with a suspect arrested following a dramatic Garda operation. This incident, involving household weapons, has left the community in shock .

A man has been arrested following what #Gardaí (national police) have described as a “serious incident” in #Dublin Gardaí at the scene of the incident in the Stoneybatter area of the city said there is “no ongoing risk” to the public at this time. There is a large Garda presence in the area and other emergency services have attended. The man is currently being detained at a Garda station in the city’s northside.

Germany Protests Against ‘Far-Right’ Being Funded by Left-Wing Government: Report

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Hundreds of thousands of protesters took to the streets of Germany over the past week to demonstrate against the so-called “far-right”, however, a top publication has reported that activist groups involved have been funded by the left-wing government in Berlin.

A supposedly organic outpouring of opposition to the surging Alternative for Germany (AfD) ahead of the federal elections on February 23rd has been called into question by a report from Bild, the highest circulation newspaper in Europe, which quipped that the “distances from the government district to the mass demonstrations are quite short.”

Last Sunday, around 160,000 people demonstrated in Berlin over the decision by the centrist Christian Democratic Union (CDU) to join with the populist AfD on an immigration vote.

One of the main organisers of the event was the “Together against the right” activist network, which was identified by Bild as a being a cutout for the leftist group Campact. According to the paper, Campact is the main shareholder in the NGO HateAid, which has received nearly 2.5 million euros from the federal government since 2020.

The Association for Environmental Protection and Nature Conservation (BUND), which has also been active in organising against the rise of the political right in Germany, was found by the report to have secured around two million euros in funding from the Ministry of Economic Affairs, led by Green chancellor candidate and outgoing finance minister Robert Habeck.

The left-wing environmentalist group is also said to have received six-figure handouts from both the Ministry of the Environment and Education in 2023.

Bild also noted the group’s politically nepotistic nature. Verena Graichen, the deputy chairwoman of BUND, is married to Michael Kellner, the Parliamentary State Secretary under Habeck. Graichen is also the sister of the former State Secretary in the Ministry of Economic Affairs.

Another group active in organising against upswell in support of the AfD has been the “grandmas against the right”, which was involved in a demonstration of around 24,000 people in Hanover on Saturday. The group has reportedly received at least 23,000 euros from the federal government.

It is not the first time that left-wing organisations funded by the German government have targeted the anti-mass migration party. In 2023, the taxpayer-subsidised and Soros-funded non-profit Correctiv published an “undercover” investigative report claiming that a conference attended by AfD members and Austrian identitarian activist Martin Sellner had seen calls for the “deportations of people from Germany based on a set of racist criteria, regardless of whether or not they have German citizenship.”

Attendees, including a member of the centrist Christian Democratic Union (CDU), denied the leftist organisation’s claims, which were based on hearsay rather than in-person journalism.

Nevertheless, the ensuing scandal resulted in millions of protesters taking to the streets and the AfD suffering a setback in the polls.

In addition to facing government-funded activism, there have been calls to ban the Alternative for Germany party altogether to supposedly protect democracy. Despite this, the party has continued to grow in support, particularly in the wake of multiple terror attacks over the past year committed in Germany by migrants.

This has coincided with a drastic decline in support for the governing leftist Social Democratic Party (SPD). According to a poll by the Tyson Group, conducted on behalf of the American-based EU-US Forum, a “staggering” 70 per cent of Germans disapprove of SPD Chancellor Olaf Scholz’s job performance.

Tyson Group Vice President Alex Alvarado noted that it comes amid a broader pushback against leftist governments throughout the European Union, with the survey finding that a majority in France, Germany, and the Netherlands believe the EU is heading in the wrong direction.

“Issues like the rising cost of living, healthcare, and migration remain top concerns, while conservative solutions like stricter border controls and a focus on domestic food production garnered widespread support. This survey highlights a clear shift toward conservatism across Europe, with citizens expressing frustration with high taxes, government inefficiency, and the perceived rise of the far-left,” he said.

https://www.breitbart.com/europe/2025/02/09/germany-protests-against-far-right-being-funded-by-left-wing-government-report

Britain’s Hidden Epidemic of Sexual Violence, Why It’s Covered Up & Who’s Committing it

Please SIGN OUR PETITION: We Demand Full Statistics on Sexual Assault, Rape & Gang Rape by Nationality and Ethnicity: https://www.change.org/p/we-demand-fu… Rapes in England and Wales have quadrupled in just 10 years. Other European countries – such as Demark, Sweden and Germany – have experienced similar explosions since around 2015. But why? What is causing this? What has changed? And why, unlike other European countries, is the British state so unwilling to provide the full data on who is committing these crimes? Between 2011-2025, taking all UK newspapers combined, the British press have run over 8x more stories on George Floyd and more than 50x more stories on the “Far Right”, than they have on the grooming gangs in Britain. In this hard-hitting episode of Heresies, broadcaster and Talk Radio presenter Alex Phillips explores Britain’ hidden epidemic of sexual violence, and why it’s covered up. This is Episode 14 in our acclaimed documentary series #NCFHeresies. To see other episodes in this series please see:    / @newcultureforum  

Migration, Conquest, and Exodus

By Lars Møller

Image: Sack of Rome by Karl Bryullov, Public Domain.

The irreversible process of “transculturation” is underway. Without question, the West has changed profoundly alongside the sustained immigration from the Third World, legal and otherwise.

Particularly affected by the change is Europe, the “eastern pillar” of the West, which borders the dominion of Islam. In this part of the world, the presence of Muslims has a troubled history; to those with a grain of historical awareness, it brings back painful memories of the war of conquest that began over a thousand years ago in the Levant and reached as far north as the city gates of Vienna.

North America, the “western pillar” of the West, is also in a state of siege. Millions of Latin Americans are migrating north, trying to cross the border in the hope of a better life for themselves and their children. Like migrants of the Old World, they are fleeing failed states, social misery, and barbarism. However, unlike the hordes of young men invading Europe by sea or land, they mostly share the Christian roots and are therefore strangers to supremacist ambitions. As a necessary, if not sufficient, condition for successful coexistence, North and Latin Americans are at least characterized by a community of values.

Numbers matter. As soon as they are numerous enough, immigrants inevitably mold the society where they have taken up residence. Some of them are easier to integrate and assimilate than others. Christianized immigrants in North America, although accustomed to political chaos and lawlessness from home, are differently receptive to “civilizational instruction” than Muslims, for whom sharia stands above everything else — including laws and regulations of Western society.

From a historical perspective, immigration into Europe from neighboring regions equals a resumption of Islamic expansionism, though clearly by other means than in the era of the Caliphates and the Ottoman Empire. (The neo-Ottoman tyrant in Ankara openly rejoices in his civilian colonization of Western Europe.)

The West, depraved and self-doubting, yet preoccupied with “rules” as a matter of self-perception, is seen in the outside world to represent a civilization in decline. People with a criminal mindset, including tyrants with power over entire nations, scorn those who are decent and restrain themselves. Propriety is indiscriminately mistaken for weakness by those with predatory instincts.

Instead of admiring Westerners for creating free, prosperous societies under the rule of law, outsiders tend to envy us what we have and happily buy into Marxist propaganda about the exploitation of the Third World and the demand for “redistribution of wealth”. Alternatively, they may reason that the time has come to defeat the West once and for all and establish a worldwide caliphate.

Implicitly with Jesus as an example to follow, Westerners are raised to show human love and help those in need. Hence, as a starting point, we are trustful. An unlimited credulity on our part, however, may be suspected. This apparent weakness is coldly exploited by (a) tyrants who demand payment to keep migrants from crossing our borders, and (b) tyrants who wage (hybrid) war on us with migrants to destabilize our societies.

Should anybody doubt whether it is really possible to de-Christianize an entire continent, the answer, of course, is affirmative. The entire Levant was once Christian. So was Anatolia. And North Africa. In those three regions, only dwindling Christian minorities remain today. Some have converted under duress over time. Others have been massacred because they refused to submit. Still others have been displaced.

In Anatolia, de-Christianization is nearly complete. This is due to ethnic cleansing of Christians committed by Turkish-Islamic conquerors who are genuine pioneers in this field. Executed with political determination and military organization, strategic mass killings have proven immensely effective in building a sense of national unity. What remains of millennia of Western civilization is rubble (e.g. Greek amphitheaters, Orthodox churches, and Armenian villages). Even the mention of ancient, pre-Islamic cultures (i.e. other than the semi-mythical Hittites) and their brutal extermination in the twentieth century is taboo.

As of present, post-Christian nations of Western Europe have been diluted by several generations of Muslim immigrants. Thanks to high birth rates and the constant arrival of newcomers, their number increases steeply year by year. Alien rules of behavior in public life are taking over at the same rate. The “grand replacement”, as it has been termed by French polemicist Renaud Camus, is at work. The statistics (demographics) speak for themselves, independent of “far-right” conspiracy theories.

The collapse of institutions that traditionally characterized Western society marks with brutal clarity the transition from the rule of law to anarchy and — ultimately — tyranny. One such institution is “freedom of speech”. To perceive as a transitional phenomenon is the prohibition against discussing the sweeping changes that are taking place (e.g. nationwide gang rapes tolerated by British authorities). Apparently, Europe is set on a course of “cultural suicide”.

In the aftermath of World War I, Western societies let go of tradition. As if broken by the trauma of war, they lost faith in themselves — indeed, in civilization itself. Wavering between despondency and defiance, they turned their backs on the church. Like participants in a nihilistic orgy, they indulged in utopian (revolutionary) fantasies, anti-classical iconoclasm, and modernist incantations. Unable to know how it would change their experience of “meaning in life”, they “murdered” their heavenly father. In his absence, they have behaved like neglected orphans, undisciplined and defiant on the one hand, willing to submit to tyrannical “stepfathers” on the other.

In the West, we have not waged an existential war since the defeat of the Tripartite Pact in 1945. In the meantime, American military power has deterred Bolsheviks from overrunning Europe and temporarily ensured the survival of democracy.

However, it has been beyond the power of Americans to protect Europeans against themselves. Along with large-scale importation of unskilled labor from the Third World to maintain a particular lifestyle, the latter have stopped reproducing. To an alarming degree, their rural areas are being depopulated. The few children they do have, they refuse to sacrifice in war. So they go to great lengths to prevent open conflicts. Against all reason, they swear to appeasement.

Inasmuch as Europeans can really pay their enemies to refrain from escalating conflicts, they strike a deal without qualms. Hence, they allow themselves to be humiliated by notorious tyrants without fighting back and punishing those who persistently commit crimes against human rights and international law. Little by little, it has dawned on their enemies how they can wear them out before they attack them in the end anyway.

Before the discovery of the New World, Europe comprised the entire West. As Europe is being swallowed up by the dominion of Islam, the New World (along with Australia and New Zealand) becomes the only remaining part of the West. The last bastion of civilization. It will eventually offer itself as the natural refuge for displaced Christians from the Old World. There will be a Christian exodus unparalleled in history.

History shows how Christian minorities fare in Muslim-majority societies (e.g. Copts in Egypt, Assyrians in Mesopotamia, and Maronites in the Levant). Invariably authoritarian, the latter choke the heritage of the former. Followers of Jesus are reduced to second-class citizens (so-called “dhimmis”) living at the mercy of the majority. As time goes on, they lose heart, break up, and flee the land that was originally theirs.

Unless the Christians of the world decide to reverse the tragic trend, unite in brotherhood, and fight for all that is good and right, they are doomed. That is the writing on the wall.

https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2025/02/migration_conquest_and_exodus.html

Enslaved women on ‘human egg farm’, treated like cattle, force-fed hormones 

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A horrifying story of human trafficking has emerged from formerly Soviet Georgia where at least hundred women are reported to have been kept against their will as slaves treated no better than as animals at a human egg farm.   

 The operation, which exists solely for the purpose of human egg harvesting, is reportedly run by Chinese gangsters who lured women to the eastern European country with the promise of lucrative salaries for serving as IVF surrogates. Instead, the women were held against their wills, pumped full of hormones to stimulate their ovaries, and anaesthetized once a month in order to facilitate the removal of their eggs. 

They soon realized that they had been lied to. There were no loving couples seeking to have children via surrogacy; rather, their eggs were to be harvested by the illegal trafficking ring and sold on the black market.   

The story came to light after three women from Thailand were rescued following the payment of what amounted to a ransom.   

 “The effort to free them was prompted by Pavena Hongsakula, founder of the Pavena Foundation for Children and Women,” reported the Bangkok Post. “Ms. Pavena said she learned about it from another woman victim who had been released and returned to Thailand in September only after paying the gang about 70,000 baht,” about $2,000 US.  

The victim told Ms Pavena that she and ten others had travelled to Georgia in August and were held in four large houses.  

The Pavena Foundation worked with Interpol to free the three Thai women. They were released on January 30 after the organization ransomed them, according to the Bangkok Post.  

According to a Reuters report, one of the victims told a press conference that they had been taken to a house where there were 60 to 70 other Thai women.

Most other reports indicate that at least 100 Thai women were captives at the dystopian “farm.”  

The captive women, this rescued victim explained, “would be injected to get treatment, anesthetized, and their eggs would be extracted with a machine. After we got this information, and it was not the same as the advertisement, we got scared. We tried to contact people back home.” 

Surrogacy Concern (SC), a British organization founded to expose the harms of surrogacy and egg harvesting, called the plight of the enslaved Thai women “appalling.”  

“The explosion of surrogacy and egg donation is increasing demand,” said SC, responding to the story on X.  “A growing entitlement to women’s eggs and wombs is leading us to the same place as we see with vulnerable women trafficked into prostitution.” 

“We need a global ban on the international trade in eggs and children: neither should be crossing borders,” declared SC.  “We object to both surrogacy and egg ‘donation’ in equal measure. We need an international conversation on both.” 

“A reminder: Georgia allows commercial surrogacy – many British people travel there to undertake surrogacy. How do they know eggs bought in Georgia haven’t been farmed from women in such circumstances?” asked SC.  “Demand for eggs from women of East Asian heritage is huge.” 

Surrogacy Concern asserted that human trafficking and egg harvesting are “the tip of a very serious global iceberg.” 

“In stealing these women’s eggs, they have stolen their future children.  This is a devastating indictment of 21st century life,” SC declared.  

Katy Faust, founder and president of Them Before Us, a global non-profit defending children’s right to their mother and father, summed up the story in one word:  “HORRIFYING” adding, “And entirely predictable.” 

It remains unclear how many women are still being held at the “human farm,” according to a report by the Daily Mail. The British newspaper reported also that  “Thai authorities and Interpol have launched an investigation, with police in Thailand saying that there could be other rescues as the case progresses.” 

https://www.lifesitenews.com/news/enslaved-women-on-human-egg-farm-treated-like-cattle-force-fed-hormones/?utm_source=featured-news&utm_campaign=usa

Harry, the drug-using one-time prince, can stay, but Trump had the perfect Parthian shot

By Andrea Widburg

Harry, formerly known as Prince Harry, confessed in his “straight from the therapist’s couch” memoir that he had used drugs that are illegal in America. Nevertheless, he successfully applied for a visa to live and work in this country. By rights, either he shouldn’t have been allowed in if he told the truth, or he should be deported if he’s proven to have lied. However, on the subject of deportation, President Trump understood that deporting the British King’s son could create an international incident. So, typically for Trump, he reached a pragmatic result while firing a devastating Parthian shot.

Harry’s wife, Meghan, is an American citizen. Harry, however, needed to apply for a visa when he came to America. In the visa, he was required to admit to past drug use. While we don’t know what he said, we do know that Harry used illegal drugs. That’s because he admitted as much in his memoir. If he said in his visa that he didn’t use drugs, that lie would justify deportation, and if he didn’t lie, why was he given that visa?

And why would anyone want to deport Harry? Well, we’d want to because he’s a spaghetti-spined, weak-kneed man who is totally in thrall to a dominant woman. Moreover, because that dominant woman is a leftist, Harry is too.

It’s sad, really, because Harry, with his military background and commitment to the Invictus Games, had the makings of a decent human being. However, like Benedict Arnold before him, the love of a bad woman destroyed his moral fiber and decency.  

So, naturally, there were calls among conservatives to deport Harry if it were proven that he’d lied on that visa application or he hadn’t lied but had received special treatment.

The problem for Trump is that, while Harry is the black sheep of the royal family, having burned all his bridges with that book, he’s still technically a member of the British royal family. And while the British government is a hard-left, pro-terrorist mess, it’s still technically our ally.

That means that, while it would be emotionally satisfying to evict hard-left Henpecked Harry, doing so could create a nasty international kerfuffle. Trump, who is busy cleaning out the Augean Stables at home, really doesn’t have time to waste on a spat about the disowned son of a nominal ally.

And so, President Donald Trump, in his inimitable way, said Harry could stay, made nice to the British royal family members who mattered, and delivered an exceptionally telling parting shot (emphasis mine):

[T]he president told The New York Post Friday that he isn’t interested in throwing Harry out of the country.

“I don’t want to do that,” he said. “I’ll leave him alone. He’s got enough problems with his wife. She’s terrible.”

Trump took the opportunity to praise Harry’s estranged older brother William, with whom he met privately in Paris in December during the reopening ceremony of Notre-Dame Cathedral.

“I think William is a great young man,” he said.

The Duke of Sussex and his liberal American wife Meghan Markle have voiced disapproval of Trump over the years, including one outburst in which the Duchess called the president “divisive” and “misogynistic”.

The Democrats insisted that Kamala was the “joy” candidate, but they were as wrong about that as they’ve been about everything else. Every day, Trump brings more real joy to America. This is just wonderful example among many.

https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2025/02/harry_the_drug_using_one_time_prince_can_stay_but_trump_had_the_perfect_parthian_shot.html

Man arrested for desecrating high altar at St. Peter’s Basilica in the Vatican

A man was arrested by Vatican police yesterday after he jumped onto the High Altar in St. Peter’s Basilica and kicked off the historic candelabra along with the altar cloths.

Late Friday evening local time, footage emerged on social media of a man standing on top of the High Altar in the Vatican, and kicking the six candle-sticks down onto the floor. The man proceeded to throw the altar cloths onto the floor in front of the altar.

At this point, Vatican security guards seized hold of the man and took him into their custody.

In a statement issued to Ansa news agency, Matteo Bruni – director of the Holy See Press Office – said that “this is an episode of a person with serious mental disabilities, who was taken into custody by the Vatican Gendarmerie and handed over to the Italian authorities.”

Reports have suggested that the vandal was of Romanian origin, and aged around 40.

Security guards inside the Basilica appeared slow to react. Footage showed the man had already climbed over barriers and up the steps to the altar, then kicked off the six candles and was in the act of pulling off the altar cloth before he was apprehended. Spanish outlet ABC reported that guards were alerted by the man’s triggering of an alarm upon his climbing onto the altar.

The altar is situated directly above the tomb of St. Peter which is situated in the Vatican crypt. The candles he kicked to the ground are understood to date to the mid-1800’s.

Details have been sparse about the incident, and at the time of publishing no further information about the vandal or his motive has been publicized.

It comes in the midst of the Jubilee Year, which has seen heightened security checks around the city and a re-organization of St. Peter’s Square with increased security gates to funnel all pilgrims through the Holy Door at the Vatican.

A similar such event took place in June 2023, when a man jumped on top of the same High Altar and stripped his clothes off. He later told security that he was mourning “for Ukrainian children losing their lives under Russian bombardment.”

Following the incident, the Archpriest of St. Peter’s Basilica, Cardinal Mauro Gamberti, held a penitential ritual at the altar, in accordance with the prescriptions of Canon Law.

https://www.lifesitenews.com/news/man-arrested-for-desecrating-high-altar-at-st-peters-basilica-in-the-vatican/?utm_source=most_recent&utm_campaign=usa