According to corroborating sources, the facade of an imam training center was covered with racist and Islamophobic inscriptions in Martigues, in the Bouches-du-Rhône.

The tags, sprayed with black paint, targeted the Dar Ennour Institute where 18 future imams are currently being trained.

The facade of an imam training center was covered with racist and Islamophobic inscriptions in Martigues, in the Bouches-du-Rhône, we learned Sunday from concordant sources.

"We are fighting to live it together but some do not want to hear about it," lamented Abdallah Zekri, president of the National Observatory for the fight against Islamophobia, referring to "ignoble inscriptions".

Police carried out a neighborhood investigation

The tags, sprayed with black paint, targeted the Dar Ennour Institute, an annex of the Al-Ghazali Institute of the Great Mosque of Paris, where 18 future imams are currently being trained, said its director Azeddine Djaghballou.

On the spot Sunday morning, police officers made the first observations and began a neighborhood investigation, we also told AFP from a police source.