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| 2 wounded in shooting outside mosque in Brest, northwestern France | 2 wounded in shooting outside mosque in Brest, northwestern France |
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| A gunman opened fire from a car near a mosque in the French city of Brest, leaving two people injured, local media reports. There is no information whether the shooter targeted the mosque specifically. | A gunman opened fire from a car near a mosque in the French city of Brest, leaving two people injured, local media reports. There is no information whether the shooter targeted the mosque specifically. |
| Brest Prosecutor Jean-Philippe Recappe said the gunman opened fire as people left the mosque in the city’s Pontanezen neigbourhood. | Brest Prosecutor Jean-Philippe Recappe said the gunman opened fire as people left the mosque in the city’s Pontanezen neigbourhood. |
| According to local media, one of those shot was the controversial Imam Rachid Abou Houdeyfa. Having once been a proponent of ultaconservative Islam, he became a so-called ‘Republic-compatible’ leader in 2016, helping the French government to train Muslims to “comply with the rules of secularism and living together with the French.” | |
| Police are still on the lookout for the man. | |
| France's Minister of the Interior Christophe Castaner wrote on Twitter that extra security measures were being put in place at places of worship in response to the incident. | |
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