Alerted by local residents, police intervened in the traditional Parisian church on the night of Saturday to Sunday to stop a clandestine mass.
A clandestine Easter Mass was held on the night of Saturday April 11 to Sunday April 12 at the traditionalist church of Saint-Nicolas-du-Chardonnet in Paris, in the presence of the faithful. The priest was fined for breaching confinement, we learned from a police source. The police were warned in the evening of Saturday by residents of the church, located in the fifth arrondissement of the capital, who had heard music from the premises, according to the police source, confirming information from “Point“.
Forty participants
On their arrival, the doors of the church, known for its conservative rite and in particular the mass in Latin, were closed. At midnight, a person went out and told the police that there were indeed around 40 people inside. The police contacted the priest who was fined. The participants having overshadowed, they could not be verbalized by the police, added a police source.
In March, a priest received a legal reminder for celebrating a mass in a private campsite in Isère, while the thirteen faithful present were fined for non-compliance with the confinement linked to the coronavirus.
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