African Immigrant Arrested After Vandalizing Churches in Rome

Sunday 2 October, 2016
posted by Xavier Connolly

Italian News Reports tell us that police in Rome have arrested an African immigrant after the man went on a crime spree, vandalising four churches in Rome, demolishing statues and knocking over candlesticks and reliquaries.

The 39-year-old immigrant from Ghana began his campaign of wanton destruction on Friday evening, rampaging round the church of San Martino ai Monti, shattering valuable statues and artefacts. When confronted by the parish priest, he fled the premises.


The attacker quickly located and entered another church, the ancient Basilica of Santa Prassede,which was full of visiting pilgrims at the time.  There he smashed statues of the church’s patron as well as a statue of Saint Anthony to the ground before stamping on them and kicking them. He damaged other sacred objects and ripped a large crucifix from the wall. 

The historic church of Santa Pressede, Rome (image source: paradox place.com)

The assailant was trying to destroy the main crucifix over the church's altar when Father Pedro Savelli, rector of the Basilica, grabbed him by the leg. “At least that I managed to stop him from doing that,” the priest said.


Witnessing the frenzied attack, the pilgrims scattered. 

“I don’t know if he was a terrorist,” Father Savelli told reporters, “but there was certainly a huge lack of respect for religion, a very serious action.”

The Ghanaian continued his frenzy of destruction on Saturday, vandalizing another ancient church, that of San Vitale, before ransacking the church of San Giovanni dei Fiorentini in Piazza d’Oro. The damage to San Vitale was the most serious among the four raids, several precious statues being damaged beyond repair.

Descriptions of the man provided by witnesses enabled police to track him down in Rome’s historic district, and arrest him on charged of vandalism with the aggravating circumstance of religious hatred.


The exact motives of the man’s attacks are still unknown and reports in the Italian media refrained, perhaps significantly, from disclosing the man’s religion. The population of the African nation of Ghana is 71 percent Christian and 17.6 percent Muslim.

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The bishop paid for therapy for Varela and her son for four months. Varela later testified that the bishop terminated the payments when he learned that Varela had consulted an attorney. The bishop denied this; he said that it was Varela who decided to stop accepting the payments.

In late 2002, Varela learned that Pardo carried the AIDS virus. At around this time, she tried to report Pardo to the inter-diocesan ecclesiastical court located in Buenos Aires, next to the headquarters of the Buenos Aires archdiocese. According to Varela, she was kicked out of the waiting room by a monsignor, the court's president, who told her to report Pardo to her diocese instead. A priest in the waiting room offered to bring her to Cardinal Bergoglio, whose office was in an adjacent building, the Curia Metropolitana. Varela went next door and requested a meeting, but because she did not want to tell the receptionists the specific reason she needed to speak with the cardinal, they would not convey her message to him. Security was called, and she was escorted from the premises.

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In 2003, the victim and his mother sued the Quilmes diocese for cover-up. In May 2004, a month after the Pardo case was exposed on national television, Varela and Gabriel Ferrini were summoned to the inter-diocesan ecclesiastical court, in the city of Buenos Aires. According to Varela, the four priests on the panel asked “lascivious” questions that had nothing to do with Pardo’s criminal act. Bergoglio was Moderator of the tribunal but was not present at Varela’s hearing.

On 6/10/2005, Pardo died of AIDS, ending the criminal case against him. In October 2012, a Quilmes court ruled that the diocese was culpably negligent in its management of Pardo and ordered it to pay restitution to Gabriel Ferrini and Beatriz Varela. The diocese appealed, arguing : 1) that Pardo was an employee not of the diocese but of an autonomous parish; and 2) that Varela was partly responsible because she had allowed her son to spend the night at the priest’s residence. In April 2013, the Quilmes appeals court rejected both arguments and upheld the ruling of the first court. The diocese was ordered to pay the plaintiffs compensatory damages of 155,000 pesos plus ten years’ interest. It is the first civil judgment against an Argentine diocese for mismanaging a sexual predator.


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