An 84-year-old former candidate for
France's ultra-right party shot and seriously wounded two men in their 70s who
saw him trying to burn a mosque in southwest France, police said, as the
government expressed "solidarity" with Muslims.
Just a short drive from the opulence of Versailles Palace, a closed-off community of strictly conservative Muslims
is posing the most visible challenge to French authorities hoping to stem the rise of homegrown extremists.
Eight people including a girl were lightly wounded late Sunday in a shooting in front of a mosque in the southeast French city of Avignon, the prosecutor's office said, ruling out terrorism.
France's Interior Minister has announced that authorities have taken action to close down a mosque on the south coast suspected of promoting a radical form of Islam.
An unregistered Islamic school, where 20 children as young as six were understood to have been "at risk of indoctrination", has been discovered by police concealed in a mosque in the eastern suburbs of Paris.
A Frenchman of Tunisian origin was charged on Sunday with attempted homicide after he tried to run down troops guarding a
mosque in the southeastern town of Valence, a prosecutor said.
A 29-year-old man who tried to run down soldiers guarding a French mosque said he wanted to kill them and be killed himself “to appear like a martyr,” a prosecutor said on Saturday.
A Frenchman who tried to run down soldiers guarding a mosque in central France said he wanted to kill them and be killed himself, a prosecutor said on Saturday.
A driver was shot and wounded on Friday as he drove a car at four soldiers guarding a mosque in southeastern France, local authorities said, as the country remained on high alert after the November 13 Paris attacks.
Imams in France's mosques should deliver all their sermons in French to help stop the spread of extremism, politicians on both sides of the French political spectrum argue.
France's President Francois Hollande has condemned an arson attack on a mosque in southern France after investigators ruled that the building was torched deliberately.
A father-of-three, suspected of bombarding his children with violent images glorifying jihad, has been charged with "inciting acts of terrorism", prosecutors in south-eastern France said on Saturday.
The head of a mosque in a Paris suburb has appeared in court charged with embezzlement for allegedly diverting donations into a personal offshore bank account.
Muslim women reacted angrily this week to a new ruling that the sexes must be separated during prayers at the Great Mosque in Paris - France's biggest Muslim centre.
As many as 20 graves have been destroyed and vandalized in the Muslim section of a cemetery near Paris, in the latest in a lengthening list of Islamophobic incidents in France in recent months.
Police have launched an investigation after vandals 'desecrated' the building site of a planned mosque near Paris, spraying Nazi graffiti and leaving a pig's head. It is only the latest in a series of Islamophobic attacks in France.
Islamophobia continues to rear its ugly head in France, as was seen recently in a series of graffiti attacks on mosques across the country. But how bad is the problem? For this week's Tête-à-tête we've asked two experts to offer their views.
The recent spate of Islamophobic graffiti attacks against mosques in France continued this weekend when red swastikas were daubed on the wall of a place of worship in a town near Paris.
About 70 far-right activists occupied a building site in the central French city of Poitiers where a mosque is under construction for several hours on Saturday, provoking angry criticism from political and religious leaders.
Dozens of Muslims held a protest against the mayor of a Paris suburb for “interfering” in their religion after their imam was banned from preaching at a local mosque.
