Posted on 03/12/2019 5:01:23 PM PDT by marshmallow
The over 800-year-old Basilica of Saint-Denis in France was heavily vandalised this week, with vandals smashing stained glass windows and severely damaging the nearly 200-year-old organ.
The destruction was discovered on Sunday morning by the basilica’s organist, who found that the engine of the organ had been damaged along with other parts of the massive instrument, designed between 1834 and 1841, Le Parisien reports.
Saadia Tamelikecht, head of the departmental unit of architecture and heritage of the heavily migrant-populated Seine-Saint-Denis suburbs, said the damage to the instrument, which has been recognised as a historic monument of significance in France, was major.
The vandalism was likely done, according to Tamelikecht, as a result of someone hiding within the instrument and smashing their way out.
On Tuesday, even more damage was discovered, with two stained glass windows having been smashed along with two locks that had been pried open. The windows were created in the 19th century, rebuilt after the destruction of the French revolution. Police say they are investigating the incidents.
The vandalism comes just under a year after the Basilica was stormed by far-left activists and illegal migrants who occupied the place of worship to protest a law directed at curbing illegal migration into France.
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Religion of Peace strikes again. Where’s Dubya, to come to their defense?
Good job, Froggies etc. Let a few million more murderous, subhuman muslims (SPIT!) in, and they own your azz. The EU is gone in 5-7yrs.
Probably no Christians left in Paris to do much about it.
Saint-Denis is one of the oldest and most venerated churches in the world. Good grief! No-go zones (which the French authorities say don’t exist), right! ROUSes don’t exist either, right, Dread Pirate Roberts?
Heavily migrant-populated? For fear of the migrants going "lone wolf," they can't say Muslim invaders.
We are no better. The PC stance of our U.S. institutions is just as cowardly.
Interred Charles Martels’ reaction was violent.
Do they suspect “French youth”, the same youth who often set cars on fire in Paris suburbs?
Those “youth”, up to their old tricks. What’s gotten into these French youth such as Yves and Jean-Claude? My goodness, those boys need a good talking to.
The first Christian house of worship on this site was a chapel built in the fifth century. The current church was completed in 1204. Royal burials go back to that of the Frankish King Dagobert in 639. Most French monarchs from the 10th to the 18th centuries are buried there, along with lots of other historical figures.
Now it’s in a no-go zone.
Who would have imagined, not too many years ago, that we would have front-row seats to watch our mother civilization go down the drain? I hate it.
Who would have imagined, not too many years ago, that we would have front-row seats to watch our mother civilization go down the drain?
Given that comment, I think you should take some time to reflect on your screen name.
Been there several times. The crypts are history.
Oh, I have. I was just commenting on Europe. Whenever I take the train or Lake Shore Drive into the city, I have plenty of opportunities to reflect on how most of those neighborhoods were once clean, safe, and prosperous. I grew up near East St. Louis, and I remember when it was actually a place you could enter and expect to come out of alive.
That basicilica has been around longer than that so-called religion. Europe needs to wake the hell up and round these cretins up and ship them back to where they came from.
This is Islam.
They spread to conquer for Allah.
That has always been Islam.
Mad Mo made it so.
Religion of Peace
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Worst lie ever uttered by a US President.
Refuted by the 1397 years of conquest and slavery, murder and mayhem.
If the Ministry of Propaganda told the truth about Islam, more people would have supported cutting off muslim immigration.
They are not here to integrate.
They are here to conquer for Allah.
They are here to make us submit to Allah.
Or kill us all.
Mad Mo made it so.
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