Anti-Muslim tags were discovered on the walls of the Avicenna Islamic cultural center on Sunday in Rennes.

While the Minister of the Interior Gérald Darmanin went there and an investigation was opened, the faithful refuse "to play the game of hatred".

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In Rennes, the faithful are all the more shocked that the facts occurred two days before the start of Ramadan.

On Sunday morning, anti-Muslim tags were discovered on the walls of the Avicenna Islamic Cultural Center.

The Minister of the Interior Gerald Darmanin went there, and an investigation was opened for "degradations due to belonging to a religion".

But on the spot, the believers met by Europe 1 want to react calmly, without responding to hatred with hatred.  

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Kamel, he still can't get over it.

This 50-year-old faithful discovered with amazement this series of tags inscribed last night on the walls of the cultural center, which also houses a mosque.

"There was marked 'Islam outside France'. Eternal France '", he testifies. 

Darmanin denounces "filthy" inscriptions

On the walls, blue and red paint on a white background, the colors of the tricolor, which the municipal agents took long minutes to erase with blows of Kärcher on Sunday, before the arrival of Gerald Darmanin.

The Minister of the Interior came to denounce a new malicious act committed against the Muslim community, three days after an arson that partially damaged a mosque in Nantes and around 48 hours from the start of Ramadan.

On the spot, Gérald Darmanin expressed "all the disgust" that these tags inspired in the government, and promised the "protection" of Muslim places of worship on the occasion of Ramadan.

"The president asked me to tell the leaders of this association (...) how much we disgust these inscriptions which are insults, insults to French Muslims, insults to France", declared the Minister of the Interior.

"Any place of worship, any place of religious inspiration is welcome in our country and we owe protection to our fellow Muslims as we owe our fellow Christians or Jews," he added.

"Two days before the month of Ramadan, I want to tell our fellow Muslims that instructions were given to the prefects on Friday to particularly protect them during this period of religious feast," said the minister.

Referring to "filthy" inscriptions, he assured that "the Republic must protect all its children".

"You have to stay calm, talk to people"

"I think we are facing people who wanted to shock, and that's what they did", reacts to the microphone of Europe 1 Ahmed Aït Chikh, the president of the center.

"It's indignation first. We are shocked. And then we say to ourselves 'how do we react to all this?'. For Kamel, it is through dialogue that we must react." He do not play the game of hate.

You have to remain calm, diplomatic, discuss with people, "he said. And in any case, among the tags, one would almost make this other faithful smile, if it was not registered for an insulting purpose." Long live France !

Yes, long live France!

I am happy to live in France.

If there was just that word, that would be good ". 

An investigation was opened by the Rennes departmental security for "degradation due to belonging to a religion".

A crime which incurs a penalty of four years imprisonment and a fine of 30,000 euros for its perpetrator (s).