Strasbourg: Arson attack on construction site of Europe’s largest mosque

Yesterday, a group of individuals set fire to the parking lot of the Eyyûb Sultan Grand Mosque in Strasbourg (eastern France).

The fire department quickly intervened, limiting the fire to the parking lot.

Two days after the fire at the Amiens mosque, this umpteenth Islamophobic incident illustrates the increasingly worrying climate in which Muslims in France live.

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