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Turkish police started an investigation after a group of protestors threatened to remove a cross from the roof of an Italian Catholic church in the northeastern city of Trabzon on Jan. 1, Vatan reported.
The group left a note attached to a Molotov cocktail in the grounds of the church saying they would take down the cross unless it was removed by the priest, the Istanbul-based newspaper said.
The church’s former priest Andrea Santoro was shot dead by a 16-year-old boy in Feb. 2006. A German missionary and two Turks publishing Christian literature in central Turkey were tortured and killed in 2007, reports Bloomberg.