racist and threatening tags found on the city’s mosque, an investigation opened

One of the inscriptions makes a direct link with the murder of Thomas, in Crépol, in Drôme.

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Registration "Death to the Bougnoule" on the door of the Octeville mosque, in Manche.  (BENOIT MARTIN / FRANCE BLEU COTENTIN / RADIO FRANCE)

Death threat tags against the Arab community were discovered on the morning of Saturday November 25 on the gate of the Cherbourg-en-Cotentin mosque, in Manche, as well as in the surrounding streets, reports France Bleu Cotentin .

This mosque, located in Octeville, a town merged with Cherbourg-en-Cotentin since 2000, was notably tagged with the inscription “Death to the Bougnoule”. In a nearby street, the inscription “Justice for Thomas, here we are in France, death to the Arabs”was also discovered.

Other death threats were found on several buildings in the Octeville neighborhood, near the mosque.  (BENOIT MARTIN / FRANCE BLEU COTENTIN / RADIO FRANCE)

This inscription refers to the murder of young Thomas, 16 years old, killed in Drôme, in Crépol, during the village ball. Last Tuesday, nine people were arrested in Toulouse and Romans-sur-Isère as part of the criminal investigation into the murder and attempted murder by an organized gang. As soon as the facts were known, the right and the far right multiplied the statements linking this act and immigration.

On X, the Minister of the Interior Gérald Darmanin reacted, describing these “offensive tags” of “absolutely unacceptable death threats”. He promises that “the police will search for the perpetrators to bring them to justice”.

An open investigation

It was upon arriving at the mosque for the activities organized there on Saturday morning that the residents discovered these threats. The president of the mosque’s Islamic cultural association, Omar Sharaf, told France Bleu Cotentin that he had filed a complaint this Saturday morning.

An investigation has been opened. The prefect of Manche, Xavier Brunetière, is expected on site at the start of the afternoon, alongside the city’s mayor Benoît Arrivé.

The latter reacted on X (ex-Twitter) denouncing a “heinous racist act”. “All my support to the Muslim community”, he writes. The senator from La Manche, Sébastien Fagnen, for his part, denounces one of the “unbridled expressions of hatred”.


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