French Town ordered to remove the Statue of the Mother of God
Breitbart.com 12/4/16
(AFP) – A town in eastern France has been ordered to remove a statue of the Virgin Mary to comply with a national ban on religious symbols in public, the local mayor said Saturday.
An administrative court ordered the commune of Publier, in the Haute-Savoie region, to remove the religious image, which has stood in a public park since 2011.
The town has three months to comply before it starts incurring a fine of 100 euros per day, according to the November 24 judgement.
Town mayor Gaston Lacroix said he intended to find a new home for the offending statue “on private land”.
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