A complaint was filed Tuesday after the publication on Facebook of a message calling for "burn the mosque" of Béziers.

The general delegate of the French Council of Muslim Worship in Béziers denounced "unbearable amalgams". 

A complaint was filed Tuesday by the cultural association of French Muslims of Béziers (ACFMB) after the publication on Facebook of a message calling for "burn the mosque" of this city of Hérault, we learned on Wednesday corroborating sources.

The association discovered on October 17, the day after the beheading of the teacher Samuel Paty in the Paris suburbs, this message on "a social network", declares in a press release the prosecutor of Béziers Raphaël Balland.

This call did not specify which of the city's five mosques led by far-right mayor Robert Ménard would be targeted.

"There are amalgams which are unbearable" 

"Investigations are currently being carried out by the Béziers police station in an attempt to identify the author of this electronic message", continues the prosecutor.

"We, the French, are living a difficult period," Abdallah Zekri told AFP, delegate general of the French Council of Muslim Worship in Béziers and president of the regional federation southwest of the Great Mosque of Paris.

"We discovered hate calls on Facebook and I asked the manager of the Ar-Rahma mosque (the main mosque in the city,

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) to file a complaint immediately. We cannot tolerate these facts. amalgams that are unbearable, "he continued.

"We condemn with the greatest firmness what happened to (Samuel) Paty. We are determined to fight against this kind of act ... We too are in mourning because the Republic, our Republic, has been affected. within it, "concluded Abdallah Zekri, who is also president of the Observatory for the fight against Islamophobia.

The words referred to may be punished with one year in prison and a fine of 45,000 euros 

The words targeted by the complaint are likely to characterize the crime of "public provocation by electronic means, hatred or violence against a person or a group of people because of his religion", punishable one year in prison and 45,000 euros fine, or the offense of "direct public provocation, electronically, and not followed up, to the commission of the offense of destruction or willful degradation dangerous for people", punished five years' imprisonment and a fine of 45,000 euros, the city's prosecutor said.