A statue of the Virgin Mary and the Baby Jesus is decapitated in a village near Lyon.
The perpetrators finished off the attack by smashing the heads with a blunt instrument. The statue had stood there for a century without any incident.
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According to reports Progress, Someone has decapitated a statue of the Virgin Mary with the Baby Jesus in her arms. in Poleymieux-au-Mont-d'Or, a small municipality in the Monts d'Or situated near Lyon. The Christophobic attack culminated in the beheading of the Baby Jesus he was holding in his arms.. According to the description in Le Progrès, eThe fragments of the faces of the Virgin Mary and the Child Jesus remained at the feet of the image., while other remains appeared scattered on the ground. The heads were crushed with marks of violent blows, probably made with a hammer or a similar tool.
The statue had stood on the Péronière road since the early twentieth century without any incident until the night of 3–4 May 2026. It was known as “Notre-Dame des Monts d'Or” (Our Lady of the Gold Mountains). The neighbours regarded it as a familiar and beloved symbol of the municipality.
Message at 7.30: “They have beheaded the Virgin Mary!”
The mayor of Poleymieux-au-Mont-d'Or, Corinne Cardona, tells the media that she received the warning on Monday morning at around 7.30. The message leaves little room for doubt: “They have beheaded the Virgin Mary.!”. At first he doesn't understand what might have happened. He goes to the Péronière road and sees the scene with his own eyes.
“It is absolutely scandalous and appalling,” Cardona tells Le Progrès. The mayor does not hide her bewilderment at the destruction of the statue.“What does it mean? Is it a desire to destroy for the sake of destruction? A symbolic act?”, one wonders. For the time being, the investigation remains open, but the image leaves little room for indifference: la headless Virgin Mary and the Baby Jesus also decapitated in her arms.
Corinne Cardona is already thinking she will have to rebuild it, «which will not be easy,» although there are «many photos of the statue» that could help future restorers.
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