Le Figaro Bordeaux
This time, the individual behind the damage chose to write
“Allah”
along the cross of the targeted ordeals.
After the discovery of an ordeal labeled
“Islam”
on Christmas night in Saint-Pantaly-d'Excideuil, as
Le
Figaro
revealed last week, three additional oratories were degraded at night, Monday and Tuesday.
The first tagged oratory is on the municipal territory of the village already targeted.
The nearest road signs were not spared.
The two other monjoies covered with tags are located on the departmental roads of Cherveix-Cubas.
Jean-Marie Queyroi, the town councilor, is furious:
“I am very angry that we can discover such graffiti.
It is a terrible provocation, especially regarding religious heritage.
It’s doubly scandalous!”
A few steps from the attacked Catholic symbol, the school bus shelter was also ransacked.
“Tomorrow land of Allah, today land of gwers
(insult in Algerian slang, designating a Christian Westerner or a non-Muslim, Editor's note)
”
, is displayed in capital letters, written in red and black with spray paint.
Also read “It’s sickening”: in Dordogne, a Catholic cross tagged with Muslim symbols
SOS Calvaire soon on site
“They can't be children, they don't know the meaning of these acronyms,”
believes Jean-Marie Queyroi.
I hope that the perpetrators will be found and convicted
.
The councilor, like the mayor of Saint-Pantaly-d'Excideuil, filed a complaint and an investigation was entrusted to the Périgueux gendarmerie.
“Paint samples were taken by the criminal identification unit of Périgueux
,” specifies Le
Figaro
the public prosecutor, Jean-Édouard Andrault.
Alexandre Caillé, the general director of SOS Calvaire, the first to alert about the long-standing deterioration of the private ordeal of Saint-Pantaly-d'Excideuil, decided to go there.
“This story reveals the urgency of preserving these ordeals so as not to encourage damage.
These targeted attacks also prove that they remain a symbol, that of the Cross which remains and of the Christian roots of France.
The mayor of Cherveix-Cubas agrees:
“These ordeals represent a time when we needed them at every intersection, it was an era, today it is a heritage”
.
So to preserve it, around ten volunteers, financed by SOS Calvaire, will restore the four damaged calvaries, Thursday February 29.