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Communist ‘Antifa’ Activists Attack Catholic Procession in France
LifeSite News ^ | 5/31/21 | Jeanne Smits

Posted on 06/02/2021 7:15:02 PM PDT by marshmallow

Attackers insulted and threw objects at the peaceful marchers, prompting one Catholic to tweet that the mob members 'look as if they came straight out of a Gremlins movie.'

May 31, 2021 (LifeSiteNews) -- A Catholic procession held Saturday in Paris to commemorate the killing in hatred of the faith of 10 priests and seminarists during the socialist insurrection of the “Commune” in 1871 was violently attacked by a group of communist activists and “antifas.”

The first National Assembly of the Third Republic was constituted by a majority of monarchists under the leadership of Adolphe Thiers. Its aims were peace and reconstruction after liberal Paris had been under siege for four months and suffered much. The working class of Paris wanted war and revenge but also more power, libertarian rules with equality between men and women, the recognition of divorce, free love and children born out of wedlock.

One hundred fifty years after the brutal killing of 50 hostages in the popular 20th arrondissement of Paris, the “Massacre of the rue Haxo,” old resentment is still alive and the anticlerical French extreme left appears to be anxious to kindle past anger.

The extremists’ attack forced the procession to disband. Two middle-aged men who had joined the procession fell when the demonstrators started throwing garbage cans, bottles and metal fences at those who were praying and singing. One received bad scalp wounds and had to be evacuated by ambulance while covered with blood.

Some 300 people had responded to announcements in the Archdiocese of Paris and five parishes in the northeastern quadrant of the French capital -- including Notre-Dame des Otages, which grew out of a chapel built in the 1930s by a Jesuit -- to commemorate the martyrdom of the 10 men of God on May 26, 1871.

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TOPICS: Catholic; Current Events; Religion & Culture
KEYWORDS: antifa; communists

1 posted on 06/02/2021 7:15:02 PM PDT by marshmallow
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To: marshmallow

There were no police around to protect these people? Shameful!


2 posted on 06/02/2021 7:31:28 PM PDT by Bigg Red (Trump will be sworn in under a shower of confetti made from the tattered remains of the Rat Party.)
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To: Bigg Red

Just doing what the peaceful tolerant left does best.


3 posted on 06/02/2021 7:36:14 PM PDT by Vigilanteman (The politicized state destroys aspects of civil society, human kindness and private charity.)
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To: marshmallow

https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Massacre_de_la_rue_Haxo


4 posted on 06/02/2021 7:39:12 PM PDT by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion, or satire. Or both.)
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To: marshmallow

“The issue is never the issue. The issue is the Revolution.”
Lenin


5 posted on 06/02/2021 7:53:09 PM PDT by MuttTheHoople ("The issue is never the issue. The issue is the Revolution." Lenin)
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To: marshmallow

No arrests tells you all you need to know. Antifa is protected and are the storm troopers of the communist politicians here and in Europe. Yet in the US they know if they attack such a procession, there will be those who will not turn the other cheek. At their core they are demented cowards.


6 posted on 06/02/2021 8:58:49 PM PDT by allendale
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