The Carma police zone in Limburg province has launched an investigation into a social media video showing a couple having sex on the altar of Sint-Michiels Church in Bree.

Despite the fact that the footage of the couple is explicit, their identities remain unknown, but the local police issued a double formal report: one for public indecency and one for the dissemination of pornographic material.

“I do not know the details, nor did the other priest,” pastor-deacon Jaak Janssen of Bree commented on local radio. “We do not decide whether a complaint is filed, but I find it absolutely unacceptable.”

“It is not just public indecency, but they are also simply abusing the church,” he added.

In addition to the police report, Ernest Essers of the Bree church administration notified Het Belang van Limburg that they were planning to do the same.

“This exceeds all limits of decency, respect and reasonableness,” said Essers, the church administration’s chairman, who received the sex tape via WhatsApp on Friday. “This isn’t going to work.  “This is not acceptable. This is public indecency. We are going to file a complaint with the police.”

He explained that the report was only filed on Wednesday because of the long All Saints’ weekend. “We want to handle this discreetly, but of course we want it to be followed up. This caught us by surprise.”

The neo-Gothic church was closed for several years for renovation, but it has been open to the public again since last summer, from 8:00 AM to 5:00 PM.

After that, someone comes to seal the church door, indicating that the video was most likely shot in broad daylight, but it is unclear when this occurred.

Inside the church, there are cameras. Those photographs may be helpful in the inquiry. “Quite a few people walk in to look at the restoration, but not in the way that couple did,” Essers added.

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