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Mosque in Isère vandalized amid rising anti-Muslim acts in France
The El Hidaya Mosque in Roussillon, Isère (France), was vandalized overnight from June 27 to 28. Around 5 a.m., four masked individuals broke the entrance windows, overturned furniture, and posted hateful flyers on the mosque's walls. Several similar documents were also found scattered on the ground.
The town's mayor, Robert Duranton, told ICI Isère that the evidence «suggests the perpetrators belong to the far-right movement». The attackers fled in a vehicle after the mosque's caretaker intervened.
The mosque's religious association has filed a complaint, and an investigation is currently underway to identify those responsible.
This attack is part of a broader and increasingly alarming trend. Just a few weeks ago, a man was arrested for desecrating the Errahma Mosque in Villeurbanne, where a burned copy of the Quran was left at the building's entrance. Around the same time, a halal butcher shop owned by a Franco-Moroccan in Haute-Garonne was targeted twice, with racist messages scrawled on its windows. In March, hateful graffiti defaced another halal butcher shop and a mosque in Haute-Savoie.
According to figures released by French authorities, 79 anti-Muslim acts were recorded between January and March 2025— a 72% increase compared to the same period last year. This spike reflects a toxic climate increasingly fueled by hostile rhetoric toward Muslims, including from within French political circles.
