In Agen, several tags were found on the facade of the mosque, we learned Sunday from judicial and prefectural sources. Among these tags drawn in red on the night from Saturday to Sunday, included a swastika, told AFP a judicial source who confirmed information from Southwest.
Contacted by AFP, a prefectural source also reported the presence on the walls of the building of drawings representing "a middle finger and a male sex".
In a tweet, the Minister of the Interior Gerald Darmanin condemned "with the greatest firmness the unacceptable degradations which targeted the mosque of Agen. These heinous acts are contrary to the values of the Republic. Support to the Muslims of Agen" .
I condemn with the greatest firmness the unacceptable degradations which have targeted the Agen mosque.
These odious acts are contrary to the values of the Republic.
Support for Muslims in Agen. CC. @ Prefet47
On its Twitter account, the prefecture of Lot-et-Garonne also condemned "firmly the degradations and odious acts committed" on the building, "in total contradiction" with "the freedom of worship". The judicial investigation was entrusted to the Agen police station.