French authorities shut Paris mosque

By Tangi Salaun
Updated October 21 2020 - 3:31am, first published 3:26am
Police have shut the Grande Mosquee de Pantin after it posted a video before a teacher was killed.
Police have shut the Grande Mosquee de Pantin after it posted a video before a teacher was killed.

French authorities have ordered the temporary closure of a mosque outside Paris, part of a crackdown on Muslims who incite hatred after the decapitation of a teacher who showed his class caricatures of the Prophet Mohammed.

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