A small Swiss town is being terrorized by a small gang of unaccompanied minors who have been causing chaos in the village since July, and due to their young age, authorities can do little to control the mayhem.
The group only amounts to three and sometimes four children, but they are, according to Swiss newspaper Le Quotidien “sowing terror” in the village of Soyhières, which is located in the French-speaking part of Switzerland and home to 433 people.
The newspaper lists the amount of misdeeds being as “long as two arms,” including stealing purses, shooting farmers’ chickens with BB guns, setting fire to a sheep shed with stolen church candles, and desecrating graveyards by kicking over tombstones.
The town’s church also reported that the gang of migrant children damaged equipment inside the church including defiling a statue of the Virgin Mary.
“They even defecated under a statue of the Holy Virgin,” said François Goudron, the president of the parish of Soyhières.
In addition to the desecration of the statue of the Holy Virgin, this group of children, according to the parish, urinated under a church pew, blackened a tablecloth under the altar, stole and broke candles, and burned religious photos. Goudron filed an official complaint with the police, but due to their age, the youths cannot be prosecuted.
Even more menacing is that these “nightmare” children, who are usually spotted wearing hoods, have been spotted in the night roaming around with knives and a “small axe.”
The Swiss newspaper further writes that these children are “from the same home, who arrived in Soyhières this summer from German-speaking Switzerland.”
The Child and Adult Protection Authority and the Public Prosecutor’s Office are investigating the case, but the mayor of the town, Christian Zuber, asked residents to remain calm while also expressing his frustration with this group of migrant youths.
“The police have already intervened about eight times to deal with this group of children, and the problems persist,” said Zuber during a meeting at the municipal council last week.
The mayor said that he was forced to take measures into his own hands in one incident, going so far as to look for one of the children who had urinated in the public square to force him to clean up after himself with a scrub brush.
The news of this group of migrant youths comes shortly after an Afghan migrant desecrated a Virgin Mary statue during a Mass inside a chapel in Einsiedeln. The man ripped the clothes off the statue and took Mary’s crown to place on his own head. The incident was caught on video.
In another case from this year. former Muslim Green Party politician Sanija Ameti posted photos on her Instagram page showing her shooting images of Jesus and Mary. She resigned over the incident.
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Switzerland: Muslim Green Party politician Sanija Ameti has resigned after uploading photos on her Instagram page showing her shooting images of Jesus and Mary. pic.twitter.com/gzUwwfFZRw
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