French Satanists Burn Churches, Reclaim Druidist Sites

Police in the west of France are pursuing a group of Satanists they suspect were involved in the burning of a 16th century church in the area. The Chapel of the Cross at Loqueffret near the remote tip of Brittany was burned Saturday to the point of collapse. Police found the letters "ABM" spraypainted on the walls of the destroyed church, which police suspect signify Aryan Black Metal, a Satanist movement which has links to heavy metal music, paganism and far-right politics. Gendarme Philippe Davadie, one of a 15-member team investigating the attacks, voiced his suspicions that the church was destroyed in order to reclaim a sacred Druidist site upon which the church was built.