The ground floor was destroyed by flames. A fire, no doubt deliberate, broke out on the night of Thursday to Friday in a room of the mosque of Bron, in the Lyon metropolis. This fire did not claim any victims.
The incident was triggered “in a room annexed to the Bron 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 Lyon prosecutor's office in a press release. The Lyon public prosecutor's office has launched an investigation for "voluntary damage by fire" entrusted to the departmental security of Lyon.
Multiplication of Islamophobic acts
"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 should shed light on the circumstances of this fire."
"The Muslim community cannot remain insensitive to the proliferation of acts affecting more and more mosques," said Abdallah Zekri, president of the National Observatory for the Fight against Islamophobia and General Delegate of the French Council for Muslim Worship (CFCM).
Abdallah Zekri "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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