The events that occurred on Monday evening at about 8:30 pm started with a soccer ball. Several people reportedly damaged the fence of the Maronite parish of Notre-Dame-du-Liban to get to the ball, which had gotten behind the fence. The priest who admonished the transgressors for this intrusion was quickly confronted by a dozen youths.
Insults against Christians
(…) The situation then escalated: the priest was violently thrown to the ground and grabbed by the neck. Witnesses finally managed to stop the attack. Insults against Christians are said to have been uttered by the fugitive perpetrators,” the news media report. (…) Actu 17
(…) It happened around 8:30 p.m. when several people damaged the fence of the Maronite parish of Notre Dame du Liban in order to enter the parish premises (…) The people allegedly wanted to get a soccer ball (…) The 40-year-old priest was angry and decided to admonish the intruders.
When the situation escalated with a dozen youths, the priest was brutally thrown to the ground and grabbed by the neck. It was witnesses who stopped the attack on the clergyman. The perpetrators, who fled before the arrival of the police, are also said to have uttered insults against Christians (…). Lyon Mag