Five years after the Bayonne mosque attack, mosques are still targets
Five years ago today, the mosque in Bayonne (Pyrénées-Atlantiques, south-west France) was the target of a far-right attack: after attempting to set fire to the mosque door, the assailant shot and wounded two men before being arrested.
Brittany: a far-right website doesn’t want the Koran to be read in … mosques
“It used to be that Karl Marx was taught in Saint-Nazaire, but now it’s the Koran!” This is how Breizh-info, a far-right website, criticizes the Koran courses offered in its region (Brittany, northwest France). The article is listed under the categories “grand remplacement”, “islam”, “mosques” and “immigration”. The media aims to be a medium that […]
Norrköping: a mosque vandalized, neo-Nazi slogans painted on the walls
In Norrköping (southern Sweden), the Bosnian mosque has been attacked several times since the announcement of its expansion project. Broken windows, neo-Nazi slogans painted on the walls: “It is with great shame and deep sadness that we condemn the repugnant attack on the construction of our mosque”, declared the board of the Bosnian Islamic Assembly […]
In Kehl, two mosques vandalized in two days
Last Thursday, a man vandalized the facade of the mosque on Stegermattstraße, Kehl, with a felt-tip pen. An investigation was immediately launched by the Offenburg police station, and this led to a 43-year-old suspect now being investigated for damage to property. The day before, a similar incident occurred at the Al Hadeya mosque, Kehl’s second […]
Les Bleuets mosque in Marseille: Imam Ismail withdraws temporarily
Last Wednesday, the Bouches-du-Rhône police prefect demanded that the Bleuets mosque in Marseilles part company with Imam Ismail, on pain of closure of the place of worship. Yesterday, Imam Ismail and his lawyers held a press conference to make public their counter-proposal: the imam would temporarily withdraw from the life of the mosque to look […]
Basel: pig’s head laid in front of a mosque
Over the weekend, worshippers at the mosque of the Albanian cultural association Paqja found a pig’s head at the entrance of the building. The information was shared on the Instagram account of the Muslim Commission of Basel, which described this act as a ‘shocking attack’. The Commission added: “This incident affects not only the mosque, […]
Mosquée des Bleuets in Marseille: the prefecture demands the dismissal of Imam Ismail, under threat of closure of the place of worship
The Bleuets mosque has five days to make a decision. In Marseilles (southern France), the Bleuets mosque has been at the heart of an administrative controversy for several weeks, following a request by Gérald Darmanin, the resigning Minister of the Interior, to close the place of worship. The reason for this was the preaching of […]
