A man was arrested on Thursday after disrupting a church service. The man, who is registered under an S-file, is suspected of causing damage to property at a church in the thirteenth arrondissement of Paris.
A man with a record of Islamist radicalisation was arrested on Thursday morning at the Saint-Hippolyte church on Avenue de Choisy in the thirteenth arrondissement of Paris. He was agitated and “disrupted the service”, a police source reported.
He is also suspected of having removed a two-metre high Plexiglas crucifix from inside the church the previous day. This crucifix supported a wooden figure of Christ from the seventeenth century.
This religious piece, which is said to have come loose during the theft, was found “broken into several pieces” on a nearby street corner, according to the same police source. The church congregation would not comment on the incidents. The suspect was taken to the psychiatric ward of the Paris police prefecture as his condition was not compatible with police custody. (…) France 3
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