Police Suspect Arson in Fires at Muslim Sites
From Times Wire Reports
Fire damaged a mosque and destroyed a Muslim prayer hall in southeastern France, and police suspected arson at both. Fire crews extinguished the fire at the mosque in Annecy before it engulfed the building. The prayer hall in the Annecy suburb of Seynod was destroyed.
A Muslim interest group condemned the fires as “racist aggression.”
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