PARIS: Two elderly men were seriously wounded on Monday after they caught an assailant trying to burn a French mosque in Bayonne, police said, and the shooter-arsonist shot at them. The 84-year-old suspect had far-right connections, according to a police source. A separate source, familiar with the situation, said the shooter had been a candidate for Marine Le Pen’s National Rally party back in 2015. In June this year, a shooter wounded an imam in a shooting at a mosque in the northwestern city of Brest but police had ruled out a terror motive. Mosques were also targeted after the killing of 12 people at the Charlie Hebdo satirical magazine’s office in 2015 by radicals.

Source: Pakistan Today October 28, 2019 17:26 UTC