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MARSEILLES (France), Oct 2: A mosque under construction and an adjoining building serving as a provisional house of worship in the southern French town of Aubagne were attacked by arsonists early Saturday, according to judicial officials.
While there was no damage at the new building site, the temporary mosque was severely burned, firemen at the scene said.
While four to five thousand of Aubagne's 43,000 residents are Muslims, according to a spokesman at the mayor's office, there have never been tensions in the community.
"For the time being we have no leads on the perpetrators or the motivation for such an act," said a police spokesman.-AFP
