Carpi, Italy – Artist Andrea Saltini Accused of Blasphemy and Stabbed at Church
An Italian artist Andrea Saltini was stabbed at a church hosting an exhibition of his work in his northern Italian home town of Carpi, near Modena, on Thursday.
Saltini’s show “Gratia Plena” is at the centre of attention because it features works that have been called blasphemous by some religious activists.
One of the paintings exhibited in the Diocesan museum of sacred art in Carpi, Italy is “INRI – Saint Longinus” depicting a centurion who stabbed Jesus and now he is kneeling over Jesus’ body.
The masked attacker entered Carpi’s Sant’Ignazio church and started to slash paintings with a knife and spray paint over them, the sources said.
When Saltini tried to stop him, the assailant cut Saltini’s neck and fled, according to the sources.
