Switzerland: Reformation Wall vandalised

Evangelical Focus / Sylvia Revello  |  World
Date posted:  1 Sep 2019
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Switzerland: Reformation Wall vandalised

The damage | photo: LemanBleu.ch

The Reformation Wall in Geneva, Switzerland was vandalised in mid-July with multi-coloured paint thrown onto it from above.

The monument is one of the main tourist attractions of the city in which John Calvin, one of the key French Protestant Reformers, developed his work after 1536. The wall, inaugurated in 1909, also honours the influence of Guillaume Farel, Théodore Beza and John Knox.

Rainbow?

Reports suggest that the paint deliberately forms a rainbow, a symbol of LGBT groups. An LGBT pride march took place in Geneva the previous week. Around 35,000 people passed through Bastions Park close to the Old Town, where the monument is located. But the police have said that no-one has claimed the attack.

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