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Doubs: crosses of Lorraine tagged on two mosques in Besançon

2021-11-20T14:10:17.268Z


Traced with a red bomb, they were visible on Saturday morning on the wall of the two places of worship.


It was early this Saturday that a faithful gave the alert.

The Sounna mosque, north of Besançon, in the Doubs, was covered overnight from Friday to Saturday with several crosses of Lorraine.

Traced with a bomb in bright red, these cover the surrounding walls, the gate and a car parked nearby, indicates France Bleu.

1.5 km away, rue de Chaillot, the Fontaine-Ecu mosque was also vandalized.

According to the police, immediately alerted, the facts would have occurred between midnight and 6.30 a.m.

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For the Sunna mosque, this attack is not the first.

In 2013 already, racist tags had been discovered five times on the same building: a Celtic cross, the words "

Vive la France

" and "

France to the French

" in black paint, as well as swastikas.

Parents present on Saturday morning to take their children to their Arabic course in the mosque were shocked, reports France Bleu.

I don't have the words.

How am I going to explain this to my children?

»Asks Karim (not his real name).

Parents discovered the tags while driving their children to their Arabic class on Saturday morning.

Domes and Minarets, newspaper of the Mosques of France

For its part, the Islamic Cultural Center of Franche-Comté condemned in a press release a "

serious attack on places of worship and an offense against the Muslim faithful

".

The "

only purpose

" of these acts is to "

spread

hatred and rejection of the other

", pointed out the body, which governs the mosque of Fontaine-Ecu.

The Center calls for the responsibility of all to fight against “

division and discord

”.

Source: lefigaro

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