Setting fire to a church

13-year-old boy identified by police

Fortunately, a churchgoer noticed the fire and immediately alerted the fire department.(Bild: Feuerwehr Feldkirch-Stadt)

After the arson in the Liebfrauenkirche church in Feldkirch on Saturday, the second perpetrator has now also been identified, the police have reported. The accomplice was a 13-year-old boy.

On Saturday, two teenagers set fire to the Church of Our Lady in Feldkirch. The duo had searched the donation box in the church for cash. To cover their tracks, they set fire to the cloth at the altar table. 

The police have already identified one of the two perpetrators, a twelve-year-old boy, and his "partner in crime" - the 13-year-old accomplice - has now been tracked down.