Several young people armed with “knives and a hammer” broke into the school on Wednesday at around 10 a.m., said Agnès Renaud, a teacher. A brawl broke out and a 16-year-old student was injured, added a source close to the investigation. He suffers from “superficial wounds” to his face, she said. Denouncing this “violent aggression”, some forty staff exercised their right to withdraw on Thursday and stopped working, demanding in particular “equal treatment of institutions”. Source BFMTV
A Turkish charity group is building the biggest mosque of the Balkans in the Albanian capital Tirana, according to a statement on Friday.
In a written statement, the Turkiye Diyanet Foundation (TDV) — linked to the state Religious Affairs Directorate (Diyanet) — said the Namazgah Mosque will be completed and open for worship by the end of this year. Source: Anadolu Agency
Deputy Prime Minister Matteo Salvini, stoking a war of words between Rome and Paris, said on Tuesday that France did not want to bring calm to Libya because its energy interests there clashed with those of Italy. Source Channel New Asia
The leaders of France and Germany signed a new treaty on Tuesday to update their 1963 post-war reconciliation accord, aiming to reinvigorate the European Union’s main axis as growing eurosceptic nationalism tests the bloc’s cohesion. Source: Reuters
