France: Rectory Robbed and Defecated On

A homeless Muslim immigrant from Algeria, aged around sixty, broke into the presbytery of Limay in the Yvelines on Sunday morning 9 February and locked himself in the priest's accommodation.

According to ValeursActuelles.com, the priest tried in vain to open the door with a crowbar, but he interrupted his work because he had to preside at the Eucharist at 11am.

When he returned, he saw that the door to the presbytery was open. Several items had been stolen: his telephone, his computer and his watch.

The priest also discovered several traces of faeces in his house. At 1.10 pm, he called the Mantes-la-Jolie judicial police.

The suspect had been occupying the courtyard of the presbytery for several days before being evicted from the place shortly before the incident.

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