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Mosque in Le Mans, Western France, Hit by Plaster Grenade: Reports

© AFP 2023 / JEAN-FRANCOIS MONIERPolice stand guard as members of the French technical and scientific police work at the site near a mosque in the Sablons neighborhood of Le Mans
Police stand guard as members of the French technical and scientific police work at the site near a mosque in the Sablons neighborhood of Le Mans - Sputnik International
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Police found plaster grenades near a mosque in Le Mans, western France, where a blast occurred.

MOSCOW, January 8 (Sputnik) — Police have found plaster grenades near a mosque in Le Mans, western France, where a blast occurred early Thursday night, French newspaper Le Maine Libre reported Thursday.

According to the newspaper, the police found a plaster grenade that had been apparently detonated in the mosque compound. Law enforcement officials also found three other grenades that had not exploded.

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Moreover, one of the mosque's windows had a bullet hole, Le Maine Libre reported.

The area has been cordoned off and an investigation is underway.

On Thursday morning, another explosion took place near a mosque in Villefranche-sur-Saone, eastern France. The blast hit a restaurant nearby. No injuries have been reported.

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