[Grem] iszlám támadások francia templomok ellen, rendőri védelem

[Emoke Greschik]

Faithful urged to take extra measures by the Interior Ministry and the
bishops' conference

*Catholic churches in France have been placed under police protection and
urged to take extra security measures against* *possible Islamist
attacks **before
the feast of the Assumption on Sunday.*

*“Every religious gathering, whatever its magnitude *… *is vulnerable today
to acts of malevolence, which may extend to terrorism,*” the country’s
Interior Ministry and bishops’ conference said in a joint message to
Catholic dioceses. The message was published on August 11 in France’s
Catholic daily, La Croix.

“Observing simple rules may allow you, without excessive distrust, to
ensure your security and that of your community, while preserving the calm
[and] sharing openness to others, which is needed for maintaining your
faith and religious practices,” the message said.

It urged Catholics to* look out for unusual actions or demeanours, such as
people wearing coats in hot weather. It also advised people not to leave
bags on seats when receiving Communion at Mass and to keep watch on
visitors who appeared “very nervous” or showed “an unusual interest in the
event or the building”.*

Security was increased at France’s 45,000 Catholic churches, as well as on
Jewish, Muslim and Protestant places of worship, after January attacks on
the offices of a Paris satirical weekly, Charlie Hebdo, and a kosher
supermarket left 17 dead, including three Islamist assailants.

In April French Prime Minister Manuel Valls* placed 178 Catholic churches,
including the capital’s Notre Dame cathedral and Sacre Coeur basilica,
under permanent police guard **after an ethnic Algerian and two others were
arrested for planning an armed attack on churches at nearby Villejuif.*

However, since then, *several Catholic sites* – including a church in
Tourcoing and a cemetery at Labry – *have since been attacked or
desecrated.*

The communications director of the Marian sanctuary of *Lourdes*, David
Torchala, told the Le Figaro daily this week that the shrine, which
attracts six million pilgrims annually, was “open 24 hours daily, seven
days a week with numerous entrances”, and staffers could not “search
everyone with a strange appearance”.

In a website statement the bishops’ conference said 150,000 were expected
to join the traditional Assumption pilgrimage and Mass at Notre Dame
cathedral, which claimed 14.3 million visitors in 2014.

It added that *church bells would be rung on August 15 in Paris and other
French cities in solidarity with persecuted Christians in the Middle East.*
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