Loading ...Tunisia plans within a week to close down 80 mosques that remain outside state control for inciting violence, as a countermeasure after the hotel attack that killed 39 people, Prime Minister Habib Essid has announced.
“There are about 80 mosques that we are going to close down through legal means within one week,” Essid said. “This is a decision the government has taken and we have assigned the minister of interior and all authorities involved to carry this out within the coming week. It is not acceptable to have in Tunisia any mosques operating outside the rule of law.”
The announcement came after a gunman disguised as a tourist opened fire at a Tunisian hotel on Friday with a rifle he had hidden in an umbrella, killing 39 people including Britons, Germans and Belgians as they lounged at the beach in an attack claimed by Islamic State. Another 36 people were wounded.
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