A woman reads a prefectoral decree installed on the entrance gates of the Grand Mosque of Pantin, near Paris, France, October 20, 2020. REUTERS/Antony Paone
PARIS (Reuters) - France ordered the temporary closure of a mosque outside Paris on Tuesday, part of a crackdown on Muslims who incite hatred after the decapitation of a teacher who showed his class caricatures of the Prophet Mohammad.
The Grand Mosque of Pantin, a low-income suburb on the capital's northeastern outskirts, had shared a video on its Facebook page before the attack that vented hatred against history teacher Samuel Paty.
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