- A series of photos that went viral on Facebook would show Black Panthers looting and ransacking statues of Christ.
- A false assertion because the images date from November 2019 and were taken in Chile in November 2019 when anarchists attacked churches on the fringes of a large social protest movement.
Masked men dressed in black ransacking statues of Christ. A series of seven photos posted on the same Facebook post went viral within hours. The author of the publication assures that these scenes happened in recent days in the United States.
She said members of the Black Panthers, an African-American revolutionary liberation movement, had entered churches to ransack statues of Christ.
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A quick reverse image search can quickly refute this claim. If these statues of Christ were ransacked, it has nothing to do with the United States and even less with the Black Panthers movement.
The majority of the photos published are in fact linked to a single event: the looting of many churches in Chile in November 2019 by activists. On the sidelines of the violent demonstrations and protests that had taken place in the country against the Chilean government and social inequalities, thugs had taken the opportunity to loot in particular churches in Santiago, the capital of the country.
Anarchist and anti-system groups, fighting against the sacredness of religion, are behind these lootings. Protestant temples had also suffered the same fate in Valparaiso, another important city in this country of South America. No link therefore with the Black Panthers and the United States.
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