The Bayonne mosque shooting was an attack carried out on 28 October 2019. An 84-year-old man attacked a mosque in the southwestern

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. He seriously injured two people by gunfire. The police arrested the suspect. He is said to have taken part in the 2015 regional elections as a candidate for the

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(today the Rassemblement National). According to the

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, the man is said to have tried to lay a kind of incendiary in front of the mosque at around 15:20 local time. He was disturbed by two men and then fired several shots at them. The two men were seriously injured. He then set fire to a car and fled. 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

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. He is also accused of trying to burn down the mosque. Sinké died in prison on 26 February 2020, aged 84.Attaque de la mosquée de Bayonne: Le tireur présumé est mort en prison

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