Bayonne mosque shooting

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Bayonne mosque shooting
Location Bayonne, Nouvelle-Aquitaine, France
Coordinates 43°30′13″N1°26′32″W / 43.50362°N 1.44214°W / 43.50362; -1.44214
Date28 October 2019
TargetMuslims
Attack type
Shooting, failed arson
WeaponHandgun
Deaths1 (the suspect)
Injured2
PerpetratorClaude Sinké
Motive Islamophobia

The Bayonne mosque shooting was an attack carried out on 28 October 2019. [1] An 84-year-old man attacked a mosque in the southwestern French town of Bayonne. He seriously injured two people by gunfire. [1] The police arrested the suspect. [1] He is said to have taken part in the 2015 regional elections as a candidate for the far-right Front National (today the Rassemblement National). [1]

According to the French police, the man is said to have tried to lay a kind of incendiary in front of the mosque at around 15:20 local time. [2] [1] He was disturbed by two men and then fired several shots at them. [1] The two men were seriously injured. He then set fire to a car and fled. [3] [1] Police found a gas canister and a handgun in the car of the suspect.

Police later arrested the 84-year-old suspect, who was locally known as Claude Sinké at his home in Saint-Martin-de-Seignanx. He is also accused of trying to burn down the mosque. [4]

Sinké died in prison on 26 February 2020, aged 84. [5]

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References

  1. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 "Police arrest 84-year-old man over gun and arson attack at French mosque". The Guardian . 28 October 2019. Retrieved 30 October 2019.
  2. "Two injured in French mosque shootings". 28 October 2019 via www.bbc.com.
  3. "Zwei Verletzte nach Schüssen im französischen Bayonne". tagesschau.de.
  4. Chazan, David (28 October 2019). "France mosque shooting: Man in his 80s arrested after two shot in Bayonne". The Telegraph via www.telegraph.co.uk.
  5. Attaque de la mosquée de Bayonne: Le tireur présumé est mort en prison (in French)