Vandals target Paris mosque

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Associated Press, Paris
Tuesday February 22, 2005
The Guardian

Vandals scrawled swastikas and other Nazi references on the walls of the Grand mosque in south-east Paris, religious leaders said yesterday, as authorities investigated a possible arson attack on a memorial for deported Jews.

"This intolerable act of Islamophobia is a worrying symptom in the capital," Dalil Boubakeur, the director of the Paris mosque, said in a statement.

The vandals, writing in what appeared to be ink from a black marker, scrawled about a dozen swastikas, other Nazi references and "get out" on the white walls around the mosque.

Meanwhile, police in Drancy, a north-eastern Paris suburb, were investigating a suspected arson attempt over the weekend at a memorial honouring Jewish deportees from France during the second world war.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/france/story/0,11882,1419719,00.html