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| 2 wounded in shooting outside of mosque in Brest, northwestern France | |
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| A gunman opened fire near a mosque in the French city of Brest, leaving two people injured. He was later found dead. There is no information whether the shooter targeted the mosque specifically. | |
| Brest Prosecutor Jean-Philippe Recappe said the gunman opened fire as people were leaving the mosque in the city’s Pontanezen neigborhood. | |
| According to local media, one of those shot was the controversial Imam Rachid Abou Houdeyfa. Having once been a proponent of ultra-conservative 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.” | |
| A man got out of a car in front of the mosque and quarreled with another individual, then fired six or seven shots from a handgun before driving off, local media reported. | |
| Police launched a manhunt for the attacker, who was later found dead of a self-inflicted gunshot wound to the head, AFP reported citing an unnamed police source. | |
| 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. | 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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