Spanish Christmas Nativity Scene Vandalized; Politician Falsely Blames Moroccan Migrant

A sequence filmed with a mobile phone showing a man dressed in a hooded sweatshirt using a hammer to destroy the installations of a Christmas nativity scene in Calahorra, a town in northern Spain, has shocked the web. According to several sites and Internet users, this act would have been committed by a migrant of Moroccan origin. Comments are pouring in from all sides. "A Moroccan migrant destroys the Christmas nativity scene with a hammer: we have to stop believing that these destructions of nativity scenes are trivial incidents," launched French MEP Gilbert Collard, former member of the RN and now close to Eric Zemmour at Reconquête, citing a local radio station. "[...] There is a desire to attack Christian symbols."

Subsequently, it turned out that the information is false. There was indeed destruction of a nativity scene, but the perpetrator is not a Moroccan migrant. "Given the comments on social media claiming that the person who attacked the nativity scene is of Maghrebi origin, we deny this information. He is from Calahorra, Spanish and white," the official Twitter account of the town hall rectified. Following these explanations, Gilbert Collard removed his initial tweet.

The author of the destruction of the nativity scene is an individual with a "heavy history with drugs," reports the Spanish media site ABC. He will be quickly arrested by the police.