The attack on a schoolgirl in Montpellier is “inexcusable”, condemns the rector of the Grand Mosque of Paris. “I strongly condemn the inexcusable attack of which Samara was the victim.

Violence and harassment have no place in our society,” said Chems-Eddine Hafiz in a press release this Friday. The attack on the teenager occurred on Tuesday in front of the Arthur-Rimbaud college, in the working-class neighborhood of La Mosson-La Paillade.