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A church in Orleans was set on fire on 25 July. Police discovered the words “Allahu Akbar” spray painted on a wall, 20minutes France reports.
On Wednesday night The Saint-Pierre du Matroi church in Orleans was set on fire with “criminal intent”, according to police sources.
Furniture and sheet music were burned and the heinous graffiti found. One of which said “Allahu Akbar”. Fortunately the fire was extinguished quickly by firemen and it didn’t burn the church’s supporting structure.
The fire, quickly extinguished by firefighters, did not affect the structure of the building. A police investigation was opened by the Orleans police department.
This isn’t the first attack on a French church. On 26 July 2016, two Islamist terrorists attacked participants in a Mass at a Catholic church in Normandy. The men killed the 85-year-old priest Jacques Hamel, by slitting his throat, and also critically wounded an 86-year-old man.
Last year a Muslim woman, only known by her first name “Kenza”, was given a two-year suspended sentence for vandalising the Sainte Marie Madeleine Church in Rennes-le-Château.