In a scene guaranteed not to be on your bingo card, a French nun was captured on video tackling a crazed environmental protester at the construction site of a new religious center.
The bizarre incident took place over the weekend in Saint-Pierre-de-Colombier, which is in southern France. Members of the eco-group Les Amis de la Bourges were protesting the building of a new religious complex, and a group of nuns from the Missionary Family of Notre Dame formed a human chain around the site to keep the climate extremists at bay, according to Fox News.
The nuns were clearly determined to prevent the protesters from interfering with the construction efforts and when a man began charging toward the site with piping material in hand, a nun bolted out of nowhere and took him to the ground. Others are seen stomping on the plastic piping material frequently used by activists to chain themselves together or to an object.
American priests are too scared to stand up against the Woke mob while French Nuns are out tackling climate change nuts trying to stop the building of a church
— DC_Draino (@DC_Draino) October 17, 2023
The activists protested the nuns for not respecting “public order” — believe it or not — and resorting to “violence.”
“I didn’t expect that,” a protest leader told public broadcast channel France 3. “I expected the nuns to be a little reasonable for the public order.”
“The problem is that the religious people decided to resort to violence,” he added. “I was attacked three times by five people, who snatched me, who wanted to throw me out there. They decided to protect the site with their actions and their bodies.”
The eco group is claiming that the construction threatens several rare plant species that have not been properly protected.
“There is reseda of jackfruit noted by the French Biodiversity Office,” the man added. “And it is not in the environmental study on which the Prefect relied to restart the construction site. They do not have authorization to destroy the habitats of protected species.”
Construction of the religious center began in December 2018, and was ultimately halted by activists in October 2020, Fox News noted. Building resumed in 2022 following additional environmental studies on the area.
Social media users were certainly impressed with the nun’s tackling ability… here’s a quick sampling of responses to the story from X:
How do I get her on my fantasy football team
— Harrison Krank (@HarrisonKrank) October 17, 2023
This might be the best thing I’ve seen all year.
— MJ Tomko (@Tomko_1) October 17, 2023
— Bradley Productions (@bradflix86) October 17, 2023
WOW! that is horrible! I have to hand it to the Nuns…why to show up and defend!
— Michelle Wayman Art (@SLCartistchelle) October 17, 2023
That’s one serious Sister!
— Peter Rosenberger (@Hope4Caregiver) October 17, 2023
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Tom Tillison grew up in Maryland before moving to Central Florida as a young teen. It is in the Sunshine State that he honed both his passion for politics and his writing skills. Tillison also contributes to BizPac Review.
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