Unknown persons in masks opened fire at a mosque in the city of Avignon in Southeast France. About this newspaper La Provence.
Two men armed with a pistol and a rifle, got out of the car and started shooting at people leaving the mosque. In the result of incident eight people were injured, including a seven year old girl. The attackers managed to escape.
Police have ruled out an act of terrorism. Allegedly, the incident occurred after a quarrel between young people, the newspaper writes.
June 29, a man tried to enter by car into a crowd outside a mosque in créteil 11 kilometers from the French capital. The offender failed to realize his plan because of the set front of the mosque of the barrier. According to the newspaper Le Parisien, citing its sources, he wanted to avenge the terrorist acts in the club Bataclan in 2015 in the Elysian fields June 19, 2017.