A source from the prefecture has also mentioned the presence on the walls of the building drawings representing “a finger and a male”.
Several tags, including a swastika, were found on the façade of the mosque of Agen, has it learned Sunday from sources judicial and prefectural.
Among these tags is plotted in red in the night from Saturday to Sunday, was such a swastika, said a justice source who confirmed the information of the South-West.
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A source from the prefecture has also mentioned the presence on the walls of the building drawings representing “a finger and a male”.
First time
Messaoud Settati, president of the association of the Muslims of the Agenais, the manager of the place of worship, said to have been alerted “about 2 o’clock in the morning” by passers-by who had noticed the inscriptions on the facade, which also features a series of”waves” painted in red.
The cctv footage of the place of worship were seized by the police from Agen in charge of the investigation, he said.
According to Messaoud Settati, they show that a man, alone, has penetrated within the precincts of the building “shortly after midnight”. “We can’t know if it is the work of a person who is lost, lost (…) This is the first time that we have this kind of acts of insult” on the mosque, he commented, without further details.
“heinous Acts”
In a tweet, the minister of the Interior Gérald Darmanin has condemned “in the strongest terms the degradations are unacceptable, which were referred to the mosque at Agen. These heinous acts are contrary to the values of the Republic. Support to the Muslims of Agen”.
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On his Twitter account, the prefecture of Lot-et-Garonne, has also condemned “strongly the degradation and heinous acts committed” on the building, “in total contradiction” with the “freedom of worship”. The legal investigation was entrusted to the commissioner of Agen.
