Ciborium stolen and hosts desecrated at Saint-Pierre-Saint-Paul, Dampierre-sur-le-Doubs

Between Thursday afternoon 24 September and Friday morning 25 September 2026, one or more intruders forced the entrance of Église Saint-Pierre-Saint-Paul in Dampierre-sur-le-Doubs (Doubs, France) with a crowbar, forced the locked wooden tabernacle door, stole the ciborium containing consecrated hosts, and threw the hosts on the floor. The mayor discovered the open church door on Friday. Gendarmes launched a witness appeal. The diocese treats the host desecration as a major profanation; the church was closed pending a Mass of reparation. L’Est Républicain reported on 26 September 2026 that about ten churches in the Belfort-Montbéliard diocese had been burglarized since March.

Theft/desecration mapped to incidentType vandalism (same pattern as guitiriz-sacred-heart-mary-tabernacle-2026). Coordinates are the Nominatim amenity place_of_worship pin for Église Saint-Pierre-Saint-Paul (47.4753040, 6.7329893). occurredOn is Friday 25 September, the discovery and window end; the intrusion window began Thursday afternoon 24 September.