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The white suspect involved in three recent arson attacks that destroyed African American churches in Louisiana is facing a hearing.
According to the Clerk of the St. Landry Court, the hearing of 21-year-old Holden Matthews is scheduled for Monday morning before District Judge James Doherty.
Matthews, the son of a sheriff's deputy from St. Landry Parish, was arrested on Wednesday for three counts of arson in a religious building.
Three black churches were burned in 10 days. Two were in the city of Opelousas. Another was in a nearby town.
The authorities failed to say that there was a racial motive. But Governor John Bel Edwards has called these fires a reminder of acts of racial intimidation committed in the past. And the NAACP said the fires were examples of "domestic terrorism".
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