Avignon, shoot out in front of a mosque: eight injured

Two hooded men got out of a car and opened fire. Seven-year-old girl also wounded. The authorities do not think it is a terrorist attack. But some suspect the beginning of a war of religions.

Paris (AsiaNews) - Eight people have been injured in a shootout in front of a mosque in Avignon. Last night at 10.30, two hooded men got out of a black car (Renault Clio) armed with a hand gun and a rifle and opened fire on the crowd gathered in front of the Arrahma mosque in rue Barcelona. Four people were ferried out of the mosque; Four people, including a seven-year-old girl, were slightly injured by debris that invaded their family home about 50 meters from the shootout.

The police arrived on the scene (see photo 1), but the two assailants had fled. The authorities exclude the fact a terrorist attack. "The fact that it happened in the street where a religious building is located is not a significant link," the inspectors said.

According to Laure Chabaud, a county magistrate, the accident is most likely linked to a settling of scores among young people.

But according to some signs are emerging in France of a kind of "war of religion", or "conflict of civilizations". Three days ago in Creteil (Val di Marna, see photo 2), a man in a car attempted to invest Muslims coming out of the mosque at the end of the evening prayer. No one was injured and the 43-year-old Armenian man was diagnosed with schizophrenia. (KA)

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