The Evangelical Lutheran Emmaus Church in the Leipzig district of Sellerhausen almost burnt down. Unknown persons looted several objects in the sanctuary and then set the church on fire, as the Leipziger Volkszeitung reported on Wednesday.
The perpetrators allegedly broke into the church on Tuesday night. According to the police, they broke a window, broke open cupboards and scattered the contents on the floor.
According to the report in the Leipziger Volkszeitung, they were particularly rampaging in the chancel. According to this, they swept all the objects from the altar and placed a roll of toilet paper there. One of the perpetrators defecated on the victim’s table. They took the copper altar cross and a candlestick. They left a heavy copper baptismal font halfway down the aisle, as it apparently did not fit through the window.
For years, there have been repeated burglaries in churches in Leipzig. According to the local police, political or religious motives are conceivable, but also vandalism or acquisitive crime.
At the beginning of January 2021, there was an attack on the Lukaskirche in Volkmarsdorf. Later, a letter of confession with the title “Montage for Moria – Destroy Christian-white Europe” appeared on the radical left-wing internet portal Indymedia. Last June, unknown persons also damaged a house of worship in Stötteritz and carved “Fuck a fake God” on the door.
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