Death threats sent to French priest after sold-out ‘sexy’ pole dance show held in his church

Baroque music and performing arts group performed Pergolesi’s lyrical sequence Stabat Mater combined with pole and dance acts

A French priest has received death threats after a sold-out pole dance performance that the local paper called “sexy” was held in his church.

Daniel Boessenbacher, the priest at the Protestant Saint-Guillaume church in Strasbourg, eastern France, told AFP he had alerted police to the threats after receiving two anonymous letters.