US EditionHoly Quran Desecrated After Theft From Mosque in France: Police
- A man stole and burned a copy of the Quran inside a mosque near Lyon, France, on the night of Sunday to Monday in early 2025.
- This act followed a racially motivated shooting on Saturday in Puget-sur-Argens, where a Frenchman killed a Tunisian neighbor and wounded a Turkish man.
- The Quran desecration occurred at the Errahma Mosque shortly before 4 a.m., and the suspect fled but was arrested and described as psychologically fragile.
- The suspect released videos containing racist content in which he pledged loyalty to the French flag and urged French citizens to target foreigners, leading anti-terrorism officials to take charge of the investigation.
- This case is the first far-right linked racist attack investigated as terrorism since 2019, highlighting rising religious and racial tensions in France's large Muslim and Jewish communities.
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Man arrested in France after Quran stolen, burned outside Lyon mosque
LYON, June 4 — A man suspected of stealing a Quran from a mosque near the French city of Lyon and then burning it was arrested on Tuesday evening, the public prosecutor’s office said. He was arrested in the town of Villeurbanne, where the mosque was also located, and is said to be “psychologically fragile”, the prosecutor’s office and a police source told AFP. On the night of Sunday to Monday, “an individual with an uncovered face entered the pr…
On the night of Sunday to Monday, an open-faced individual entered a prayer room in Villeurbanne and burned down a Qur'an.
A man, who had entered a mosque on the night of Sunday to Monday, seized a copy of the sacred book of Muslims and burned it. The act was described as "Islamophobic" by Muslim officials and local elected officials.
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