Paris – Police shut a mosque east of Paris and arrested the owner of a revolver found in related raids on Wednesday as part of a crackdown called after the Nov. 13 attacks on the capital, Interior Minister Bernard Cazeneuve said.
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He told journalists authorities had already closed two mosques last week – the first time France has taken such action against places of worship suspected of nurturing what he called “Islamist radicalization”. He later also revealed to lawmakers in parliament the closure of a fourth mosque in the riviera city of Nice.
Security officers found jihadist documents at the mosque where Wednesday’s raids took place and at related premises in Lagny-sur-Marne, placed a total of nine people under house arrest and banned another 22 from leaving the country, Cazeneuve said.
France, which declared a state of emergency after the Islamist attacks on Paris, has so far raided 2,235 homes and buildings, taken 232 people into custody and confiscated 334 weapons, 34 of then war-grade, Cazeneuve told reporters.
“In 15 days we have seized one-third of the quantity of war-grade weapons that are normally seized in a year,” Cazeneuve said.
The other two mosques closed last week were in Gennevilliers, northwest of Paris, and in the southeastern city of Lyon, he added.
Trump was right.
oh no, closing a mosque how horrific!!
If Israel tried that, well……..
if the puny French can close down a mosque despite their useless Constitution and liberalism, then the weak Zionists can MAYBE do the same to the mosques in ISRAEL, frequented by “Israeli” Arabs. Go Trump and Rand Paul down with RINO jeb Bush and Chris Christie.
it is a wake call for all of Europe that the mosques are indeed being used as meeting grounds for jihadists and they are storing weapons for use in terror attacks.
Boker Tov Europe, enjoy your loyal Muslim citizens.
Hussein O’ and his UN cronies will go after France now for civil rights violations, LOL
Where is th world outcry, as there was after Donal Trump said he would do so with mosques which Erie promoting terrorism?! The mainstream liberal media, and their constituents, are the most dishonest as they come! No wonder they’re behind lying Hilary!