The mayor filed a complaint after discovering cut electrical wires in the church.
The surprise was unpleasant for Marcel Bourreau. On 10 December, at 10 am, the mayor went to the village church to turn on the heating and prepare the church for the concert by the Au Chœur du Lary choir which was to take place the same day at 8.30 pm. “I was accompanied by two deputies and two municipal councilors. When I entered the church and wanted to turn on the lights, only those in the sacristy and those outside worked. Nothing worked inside,” says Marcel Bourreau. After testing the circuit breakers, elected officials realized that one of them was failing. “We opened the lid of the electrical box and saw that the wires were clearly cut, preventing normal operation and the lights from coming on,” continues Marcel Bourreau.
A voluntary act?
The elected officials of Saint-Mariens discovered, as the photo taken by the mayor shows, that the wires were cut on the switch. “Clearly it’s not a break, it’s voluntary, it shows,” says the mayor.
Faced with this vandalism, the elected officials decided to go around the church and found no sign of forced entry on the doors or windows. Then they decided to file a complaint, which was made by Mayor Marcel Bourreau on December 13 at the Saint-Savin gendarmerie.
At the concert to be held the same evening, Marcel Bourreau called an elected official who quickly connected the wires so that, as it says at the beginning of the book of “Genesis”: “Let there be light, and there was light.”. Whoever did this in God’s house may not have had light on all floors…
Cristophe Meynard
