Police catch secret Easter service in Paris church

Religious gatherings have been banned in France for the past month. FMTNews Easter Covid19

PARIS: Paris police have caught a church in Paris holding a traditional Easter mass with dozens of worshippers, in defiance of the strict lockdown imposed to fight the coronavirus, sources said on Sunday.

But the traditional Saint-Nicolas-du-Chardonnet Catholic Church in the centre of Paris held an Easter mass late Saturday, police sources said, confirming a report first published by Le Point magazine.

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