By Le Figaro with AFP
Published 2 hours ago, Updated 2 hours ago
New York Police officers at La Guardia Airport, New York, January 1, 2024. ADAM GRAY / AFP
An imam from Newark, near New York, was seriously injured by gunfire Wednesday morning and was hospitalized in critical condition, police in this city in the state of New Jersey announced. According to an email from the Newark Public Safety Press Office, police responded at dawn after a man was shot in one or more shots outside the mosque in this industrial and multicultural city. .
«The victim was taken to University Hospital and is reportedly in critical condition.“, indicated Fritz Fragé, director of public security in Newark, but without saying anything about the possible motive for this shooting attack. Her spokesperson confirmed to AFP that the man she did not identify “is the imam» of this city west of Manhattan, on the other side of the Hudson River, and that “the incident took place outside the mosque».
“Deeply concerned”
«We are deeply concerned by this incident and pray for the speedy recovery of the imam», denounced for its part the New Jersey branch of the organization for the defense of Islam and American Muslims, Council on American-Islamic Relations (Cair).
Since the start of the war in Gaza between Israel and Hamas, the United States and in particular New York and its region, in the northeast of the country, have been shaken by a number of demonstrations, community tensions and some sporadic violence. New York City alone, populated by 8.5 million people, has nearly two million Jewish Americans, the second largest population after Israel, and hundreds of thousands of Muslims.
2024-01-03 18:38:31
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