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More than 60 Muslim leaders are touring Europe to protest against terror | More than 60 Muslim leaders are touring Europe to protest against terror |
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Dozens of religious leaders boarded a bus on the Champs-Élysées in Paris on Saturday at the start of a European tour of the sites of recent Islamist attacks to remember the victims and condemn violence. | |
Imams from countries including France, Belgium, Britain and Tunisia were joined by representatives of other religious communities at the spot where French policeman Xavier Jugelé was shot dead in April. | |
Tour stops will include Berlin – where organisers say they hope to meet Chancellor Angela Merkel – Brussels and Nice, with a return to Paris for 14 July, the first anniversary of the Nice truck attack. | |
Isis claimed responsibility for that attack, when a truck killed 86 people celebrating Bastille Day on the seafront, and a truck attack on a Christmas market in Berlin last December that killed 12. | |
The Imam of Drancy and French writer Marek Halter were behind the initiative of the current tour. | The Imam of Drancy and French writer Marek Halter were behind the initiative of the current tour. |
“We are here to say that our religion and the values of Islam are opposed to those assassins,” Hassen Chalghoumi, the imam de Drancy, told France Inter radio on Saturday. | |
Some 30 people boarded the bus on Saturday with more expected to join on the way, bringing the total number of participants to 60. | Some 30 people boarded the bus on Saturday with more expected to join on the way, bringing the total number of participants to 60. |
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