The Kunszentmiklós Magistrate's Court sentenced the man who twice smashed the statue of the Virgin Mary in Dunavecs to 2 years - suspended for 4 years - in prison, announced the Bács-Kiskun County Prosecutor's Office.
According to the announcement, the Kunszentmiklós District Prosecutor's Office brought charges in the case for vandalism by destroying an object of religious veneration.
As civilek.info also wrote , the local man first drunkenly damaged the statue of Our Lady of Medjugorje erected by the local Roman Catholic Parish with a piece of stone in the early hours of May 19, 2023, in the inner area of Dunavecse, on the roundabout on highway 513.
As a result of the blows, the head, the upper part of the torso and the left arm of the approximately 120-centimeter-tall, hollow resin statue were completely broken off, making the statue irreparable.
After the church community had a new statue of Our Lady erected in its previous place, the accused again hit and smashed it with an ax in the early hours of December 31, 2023, causing a total of about one million HUF in damage.
The prosecutor's office proposed imposing a prison sentence suspended for a probationary period against the man.
The Kunszentmiklós Magistrate's Court sentenced the accused, who admitted to committing the crimes, to 2 years in prison without trial - as a criminal sentence - and suspended the execution of the sentence for 4 years, the announcement states.
MTI
Photo: The damaged Virgin Mary statue / Source: police.hu
