A fire no doubt voluntary broke out this Friday around 3 am in a room of the mosque of Bron (Rhône), indicates the prosecutor's office of Lyon. No casualties were reported. Nearly 100 m2 of the ground floor were completely devastated by the flames, reports Progress.
The incident started “in a room annexed to the mosque. The first findings lead to favor the criminal hypothesis given the two outbreaks of fire observed in two different places of the room ", explains the prosecution in a press release. After more than two hours of intervention, according to Progress, the firefighters managed to control the fire.
The Lyon public prosecutor's office has launched an investigation for "voluntary damage by fire" entrusted to the departmental security of Lyon.
In July, tags on the Agen mosque
"The freedom of worship is a fundamental value in our country", reacted on Twitter the Minister of the Interior Gérald Darmanin. “An investigation is open and will have to shed light on the circumstances of this fire. "
Freedom of worship is a fundamental value in our country.
An investigation is open and should shed light on the circumstances of this fire. https://t.co/ZN2pKUXP3N
"The Muslim community cannot remain insensitive to the proliferation of acts affecting more and more mosques," declared Abdallah Zekri, president of the National Observatory for the Fight against Islamophobia and General Delegate of the French Council. of Muslim worship (CFCM).
He “strongly condemns and denounces this criminal act against a place of worship” and asks the Minister of the Interior to “do everything possible to put an end to these intolerable attacks”.
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In July, several tags drawn in red, including a swastika, had been discovered on the facade of the Agen mosque. At the end of October 2019, it is an octogenarian shooter, former FN candidate in the Landes departmental elections, who injured two worshipers at the Bayonne mosque after setting the front door of the religious building and a car on fire.
