Musician confesses burning of churches

The american metal musicians Holden Matthews can look forward to between 10 and 70 years behind bars. yesterday confessed that he was last spring exercised ex

Ann McDonald
Ann McDonald
11 February 2020 Tuesday 10:00
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Musician confesses burning of churches

The american metal musicians Holden Matthews can look forward to between 10 and 70 years behind bars.

yesterday confessed that he was last spring exercised extensive vandalism at four churches in Louisiana - among others by arson.

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Holden Matthews' motive for brandstiftelsen was that he wanted to sharpen its profile within the anti-christian subgenre of black metal.

the American intention was to copy similar crimes during the massive media attention took place in Norway and Sweden in the 1990s, where several churches was burned by local musicians.


Holden Matthews, who was 21 years, since the vandalism took place, took pictures and video footage of the burning churches, and laid them on Facebook.

the Churches were more than 100 years old, and the churches consisted mostly of black. Attacks is regarded as religiously motivated and not rascistiske.

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Holden Matthews' father is a deputy sheriff in the area where one of afbrændingerne took place.

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the Churches were deserted, when they broke into flames, and nobody got anything.

Holden Matthews gets his judgement 22. may.

Vice-president Mike Pence visited one of the burned churches in may. Photo: Gerald Herbert/AP/Ritzau Scanpix

Updated: 11.02.2020 10:00