During a festival in Arbrats-Sullègue (Pyrénées-Atlantiques) on June 29, a humorist proposed a spectacle which shocked public opinion during which she set up an act of masturbation standing on the altar while shouting “God is dead”. The artist says he wanted to denounce sexual crimes in the Church. The Christian community denounces a sacrilege. The Bayonne prosecution has opened an investigation.
His performance creates controversy. A Spanish humorist performing in a church in the Pyrénées-Atlantiques on Sunday, June 9, reacts enormously. During her performance, Anne Lindane, among other things, simulated an act of masturbation. An investigation for “sexual exhibition, degradations and provocation to hatred due to religion” was opened by the Bayonne prosecutor’s office, reports South West.
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The show of the humorist took place as part of the Euskal Herria Zuzenean (EHZ) festival in the church of Arbrats-Soulègue. 200 people were on site to attend.
For his entry on stage, the artist “monologist” improvised, according to him. She went up on the altar of the church, a hand -hand crucifix that she used to mimic a masturbation while shouting “the Lord is dead”.
Yesterday I gave a great monologue in the Festi Euskal Herria Zuzenean. In a church without delaying 200 people we staggered the foundations of Catholicism at clean laugh. We stain, blaspheme and denounce the sexual abuse of the Church.
God is dead! pic.twitter.com/rIG6aXa9Y8– Ane Lindane (@lindaneane) June 30, 2025
Denounce sexual abuse in the Church
The sequence has enormously reacted on social networks, in France as in Spain. The artist posted the video of a few seconds herself online. Yesterday, I pronounced a magnificent monologue at the EHZ festival. In an unofficed church, 200 people shaken the foundations of Catholicism with warm laughter. We desecrated, blasphemed and denounced the sexual abuses within the Church! “, She wrote on X.
But many faithful have expressed their indignation. The president of the very conservative Spanish Foundation of Christian lawyers, Polonia Castellanos, said that she had “initiated actions against those responsible”. She accuses Ane Lindane of being knowingly come to give her performance in France, where the attack on “religious feeling”, in other words blasphemy, is not criminally repressed.
“Obscene” and “anti -Christian”
The bishop of Bayonne denounced “particularly obscene gestures” and “violently anti -Christian words”. “” “Of such acts, which occurred in a church devoted to worship, deeply collide with the Catholic community. They constitute, in the eyes of the Church, a sacrilege which calls for an act of reparation “, wrote in a press release Marc Aillet.
The performance of the crucifix was totally improvised and tried to emulate the scene of the exorcist movie. The Catholic Church offends an artistic fiction much more than the terrible reality: the Church has committed and undercover more than 440,000 abuses to children.@ElTablero_TV… pic.twitter.com/gc35pX8AJP
– Ane Lindane (@lindaneane) July 2, 2025
In the churches of the French state things happen much more serious than a comic rising to an altar to simulate a masturbation. But this, for whatever, does not worry so much to Catholics. https://t.co/0ahgknmml
– Ane Lindane (@lindaneane) July 2, 2025
For his part, the humorist persists and signs, defending an “fully improvised” representation which “tried to imitate a scene from the film The exorcist. “The Catholic Church is much more offended by this artistic fiction than by the terrible reality: it has committed and hidden more than 440,000 cases of sexual abuse on minors”, castigates Ane Lindane. “There are much more serious things happen in French public churches than a humorist climbing on an altar to simulate masturbation,” she writes in another publication.
