French 'Black Metal' Youths Confess To Attacks On Christian Sites
June 25, 2007Three youths between the ages of 21 and 22 have confessed to series of attacks on Christian sites in Brittany in northwest France, according to Yahoo! France. The suspects, who belong to a shadowy anti-religious group with links to heavy metal music, denied having commited the acts as part of a satanic ritual and claimed to have carried out the attacks as a way to protest "the excessive power of Christianity and the abolition of pagan worship."
The suspects were taken into custody Thursday morning (June 21) and were placed under arrest over the weekend. They claimed to have acted alone, or with accomplices, in the desecration of eight Christian sites since the beginning of May, before burning down the 16th-century Chapel of the Cross (slideshow) at Loqueffret near the remote tip of Brittany (France) the night of June 15-16.
Members of the group, which calls itself "True Armorik Black Metal", or TABM, described themselves as "extremist and anti-ecclesiastical" in a letter sent to local newspaper the Telegramme, which published excerpts on Thursday.
"We are going to strike again, again and again," warned the letter, in which the group's acronym was scrawled in blood-red letters over the image of an inverted Christian cross.
A total of seven people were detained last Thursday and four were eventually released after being questioned by the police.
45 investigators worked on the case, which drew international attention.
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