A Muslim worship prayer tent was destroyed by a fire on Friday to Saturday in Rambouillet. If the criminal thesis is favored by the police, no suspect has been arrested immediately, said the prosecution.
Le Monde with AFP
A Muslim place of worship was destroyed by a fire in the night from Friday 2 to Saturday September 3 in Rambouillet (Yvelines), learned the agency France-Presse (AFP), the police and the prosecution favoring the track Criminal. An investigation was opened for “criminal fire” or “voluntary destruction by incendiary means” by the Versailles prosecutor’s office, which entrusted the investigations to the judicial police of this city.
According to the first elements of the investigation, residents of the street where this “prayer tent” was located reported that they saw around 1 am “two people leave quickly with a can [and have] seen Then the blue flames, [what is] significant of the presence of hydrocarbon, “said a police source, which favors” an intentional fact “.
According to another police source, also citing witnesses, the two men have fled “with a jerrican, aboard a two-wheeler”. No suspect was arrested immediately, said the prosecution, requested by AFP.
“Solidarity with the Muslims of Rambouillet who saw their place of worship destroyed by a fire tonight. An investigation is open and will make it possible to shed light on its origin”, reacted on Twitter The Minister of the Interior, Gérald Darmanin.
“Only material damage”
“A fire broke out this night in our tent, and despite the rapid intervention of firefighters and their efforts everything has ignited, and there is nothing left if not the metal structures”, A Commented the association of Muslims of Rambouillet (AMR)
The burnt down prayer tent was installed several years ago in the La Louvière district of Rambouillet, pending the construction of a “perennial” mosque.
“For four years, we have been working in very close collaboration with the town hall, the AMR and the Council of Muslim institutions of the Yvelines [Cimy] to work on a lasting solution. The municipality agrees on the principle”, explained to AFP the prefect of the Yvelines, Jean-Jacques Brot.
“Miserable act”
“The sustainability is quite close, it was repeated that the AMR had to file its new statutes law 1905 and that it meets the latest details requested from the architect by the town planning service of the Town hall so that the building permit can be educated and issued, “continued the prefect,” dismayed by this incident “, which he described as” miserable act “.
Contacted by AFP, Véronique Matillon, the mayor of Rambouillet, had not responded immediately. on Twitter , the international league against racism and Anti -Semitism (Licra) expressed “its solidarity with the faithful of the Rambouillet mosque”.
“The Union of Mosques de France (UMF) firmly condemns the criminal fire of which the Rambouillet mosque was the victim. The UMF expresses its total support for the faithful and managers of the mosque and hopes that the authors of This abject crime are stopped “, tweeted mohammed Moussaoui, president of the UMF.
The rector of the Great Mosque of Paris, Chems-Eddine Hafiz, assured its” total solidarity with the Muslims of this city “.