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| French police search for man who rammed car into mosque | French police search for man who rammed car into mosque |
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| Police are looking for a driver who rammed his vehicle through the front doors of a mosque in a town in northern France, local media cited officials. | Police are looking for a driver who rammed his vehicle through the front doors of a mosque in a town in northern France, local media cited officials. |
| The car “deliberately broke the entrance of Al-Wifaq mosque” in Mons-en-Barœul, 3 km from the city of Lille, at about midnight, a local prefecture said, as cite by French media, adding that no one was injured in the incident.Mons-en-Barœul has a population of about 22,000 people. | |
| Police confirmed the incident to Le Parisien, noting that they know the identity of the attacker, but not his motives. | Police confirmed the incident to Le Parisien, noting that they know the identity of the attacker, but not his motives. |
| READ MORE: 10 suspected far-right extremists arrested in France over planned attack on Muslims | |
| Photos and videos showing a car at the entrance of the mosque appeared on Twitter and YouTube. | Photos and videos showing a car at the entrance of the mosque appeared on Twitter and YouTube. |
| The suspect of Maghreb origin in a Mercedes car has been identified by police and is currently wanted, France 3 TV reports, citing its sources. | The suspect of Maghreb origin in a Mercedes car has been identified by police and is currently wanted, France 3 TV reports, citing its sources. |
| France, a country with a large Muslim community, has some 2,500 mosques and prayer halls across the country. In June this year French counter-terrorism forces detained a group of suspected far-right radicals who were plotting an attack on “people of Muslim faith.” Firearms as well as homemade explosives were found during the raid. | |
| In October 2017, police arrested 10 people in the Paris and Marseille areas over a suspected plot to attack mosques, migrants, and even former presidential candidate Jean-Luc Melenchon. | |
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