A naked, "burly man" storms a church service with a beer bottle in his hand
Created: 05/27/2022Updated: 05/27/2022 14:58
By: Felix Herz
The service on Ascension Day was significantly disrupted (symbol image).
© Christophe Gateau/dpa
During the sermon, a man in his 40s ran into a church with a beer bottle in his hand.
The police are "consistently" looking for the perpetrator.
Kirchehrenbach – On the Ascension Day, the Christian faith commemorates the ascension of Jesus Christ into heaven, the return to God, his Father.
The holiday is one of the most important holidays for believers and is always celebrated 39 days after Easter Sunday — it always falls on a holiday.
On Thursday evening, May 26, believers celebrated the Ascension at a service in Kirchehrenbach.
But they were disturbed: by a naked, unknown man.
Worship service on Ascension Day: Naked disturbs sermon
On Thursday evening, believers gathered in the church of Kirchehrenbach, in the district of Forchheim in northern Bavaria, for a service to celebrate the Ascension of Christ.
Suddenly a "burly man" stormed into the church with a bottle of beer in his hand and then ran out again, according to the police.
"It can be assumed that he got dressed again in front of the church and then fled," said the police.
Now the officials are looking for the approximately 40-year-old man.
It is determined because of the arousal of public nuisance and the disturbance of the practice of religion.
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Police are looking for a naked troublemaker: there is even a risk of imprisonment
The police department head Georg Götz cannot approve of the action and finds clear words: "It doesn't matter whether a drunk performed a test of courage or there was another motive.
Disrupting a service in this way is not only shameful for the man, who hopefully has regained his senses, it is above all a criminal offense and we will prosecute it.”
Götz even throws out a prison sentence, "depending on what else he has on his tally." Now it only remains to be seen whether the police will be successful in investigating the naked troublemaker.
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