Jordan News

The media spokesperson for the Public Security Directorate said that a few days ago, a report was received by the Karak Governorate Police Directorate that unknown persons had violated the sanctity of a cemetery in the Karak governorate and caused material damage to some graves.

The media spokesperson confirmed that through investigations and information gathering, a suspect was identified and arrested. He admitted to interrogating him. A few days ago, he was accompanied by a friend of his. They were drinking alcoholic beverages and entered the cemetery and broke the marble from a number of graves. His partner was arrested and will be referred to the judiciary.

Last Monday, unknown assailants attacked the Roman Catholic cemetery of Ader in the Karak governorate.

Activists on social media circulated pictures showing the attack on the cemetery, in which dozens of tombstones and crosses of graves were destroyed and desecrated, noting that the incident is in itself a dissemination of hatred among the people of the country.

The activists demanded that the perpetrators of the attack be held accountable, asking at the same time, “What is the fault of the dead for persecuting their graves, are they not satisfied with persecuting the living?”