Courtesy: CBCI website

Bangalore, Dec 19: An unruly mob attacked St Thomas Church and St Claret School in sub-urban Bangalore last night.

When Bangalore Archbishop went to visit the site, the mob attacked his car breaking its wind screens. Providentially the Archbishop escaped from physical injuries.

Last evening, a group parents of the students of the St Claret School lodged a complaint against the school principal accusing him of misbehaviour with students.

Late in the same night, a mob attacked the Church and the school vandalizing both of them. When the priest came out to see what was happening, they too were attacked by the miscreants.

When the Claretian priests who were running the school went to the local police station to lodge a complaint against the attackers, to their surprise they found that a complaint was already lodged against them.

The above incident was brought to the notice of Archbishop of Bangalore Bernard Moras last night.

The Archbishop along with his Secretary Fr Anthony Samy and the Archdiocesan Finance Officer Fr C. Francis went to visit the site this morning. The car in which they were travelling belonged to the Finance Officer who was driving the vehicle.

“As we arrived at the school gate, the car was attacked and smashed. They tried to hit me and my spectacles fell within the car and providentially, I escaped injury,” said Archbishop Moras to Fr Henry D’Souza, the editor of this website.

“The police force was present at the site in sufficient numbers. Unfortunately, they were only mute spectators. They could have certainly avoided the incident, or at least alerted us not to proceed to the school gate,” said Fr Anthony Samy.

Secretary General of CBCI Archbishop Stanislaus Fernandes, Archbishop of Bombay Oswald Gracias and Archbishop of Delhi Vincent Concessao have strongly condemned the attack and urged the Government of Karnataka to provide the necessary protection to it's people, especially the minorities and institutions.