Several dozen fundamentalist Catholics close to Civitas prevented the holding of a concert by the American organist Kali Malone on Saturday in a church in the town of Morbihan.
The mayor of Carnac (Morbihan) announced Monday evening that he had filed a complaint after several dozen fundamentalist Catholics close to Civitas, opposed to a concert by American organist Kali Malone in a church, prevented the performance from taking place.
Saturday evening, “about forty young people with clear necks were hampered by violence, one of my assistants was slapped under the cries of ‘back Satan!’, a concert which was to take place in the Saint-Cornély church “, wrote on Facebook Olivier Lepick, mayor of this tourist town on the Breton coast of more than 4,000 inhabitants. The mayor then took the decision to cancel the planned concert.
“I could not tolerate that the violence of the demonstrators fell on a public who had come peacefully to attend a concert or that our church suffered damage if by chance it had been necessary to evacuate the illuminated by force”, he adds. , pointing out that the concert organized under the aegis of the Ministry of Culture and the county council had been approved by the bishopric and the parish committee.
“I very strongly condemn this violence of a profoundly totalitarian nature which would like to impose radical convictions on others by force”, also believes the mayor.
No “work contrary to the message of the Gospel”
In a press release sent to AFP, the Brittany union of musicians CGT artists condemned an extreme right which “now claims to dictate its programming to show organizers”.
“If the members of Civitas or a similar group try again to prevent a show from being held in Brittany, they will have to expect to find CGT activists in front of them”, reacted the syndicate.
The diocese of Vannes also denounced the events of Saturday, stressing that “the Church could not be the place of any violence”.
“The parish discernment commission has never identified in the program any work contrary to the message of the Gospel which could have undermined the sacred dimension of the place”, indicates the diocese on its website.
“The title ‘sacer profanare’, which seems to have set fire to the powder, never appeared on the program presented for this concert”, adds the diocese. On Twitter, Civitas referred to a “profanatory concert” and tweeted in Latin “Christus Vincit!” (Christ wins).
