This has to be the most bizarre thing you’ll hear all day.
A baby’s relatives were forced to wrestle their child away from a French priest who slapped the baby during a baptism.
The clergyman hits the child in the face with his left hand, after losing his temper when the baby would not stop crying during the ceremony.
The outraged parents react in utter shock and step in to snatch their baby back.
It is unknown when the footage was filmed but it was captured in a church where the ceremony was conducted in French. The clergyman begins to look irritated at the loud noise and raises his voice to be heard over the baby’s crying, apparently speaking directly to the child.
The child’s relatives still appear to be smiling as the priest brings the baby’s head towards his, but the baby reacts badly and flails its right arm towards the woman.
As it carries on crying the priest says:
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The priest, who is now visibly annoyed, then holds the baby’s face in his hands, looks it in the eyes and then slaps it hard on the cheek with his left hand.
The priest’s aggression prompts an immediate reaction as the baby cries more loudly, relatives look completely shocked and another woman comes over to try to calm the situation by putting her hand on the clergyman’s chest as if to hold him back.
As the audience begins to murmur he repeats: ‘There, you have to calm yourself, you have to calm yourself, there, there.’
The man who seems to be the child’s father then steps in, taking the child out of the priest’s grip, even as the cleric seems unrepentant and tussles for possession of it.
Shocking, to say the least!