Saint-Paul Church in Colmar.
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The priest of the Saint-Paul church in Colmar was severely beaten by an individual on Tuesday evening.
As the man of the Church was preparing to celebrate the religious service, he asked a man seated near the altar to go away and join the audience, reports the
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It was then that the individual would have made comments "surprising then threatening".
As the priest tried to calm him down, the man punched him several times, causing him to fall to the ground.
They are the faithful who have succeeded in stopping this surge of violence and in controlling the individual, aged about twenty.
Arrested, the man continued to be violent at the police station.
Known to justice for acts of violence, specify our colleagues, he was hospitalized automatically in a psychiatric establishment.
His motivations remain obscure.
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