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2019 Bayonne mosque shooting

Mosque attack in Bayonne, France

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionAug 7, 2026
Entity authoritySource title only
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On 28 October 2019, a shooting took place at a mosque in Bayonne, Pyrénées-Atlantiques, France. An 84-year-old man 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 far-right Front National.

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Editorial reviewA dependable orientation record for establishing vocabulary, names and a first evidence trail. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2019, 2015—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. The account is most persuasive where Bayonne, mosque and shooting can be independently traced.
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This entry incorporates text from “2019 Bayonne mosque shooting” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.