Unknown vandals have attacked Chukurcha-Jami mosque in Crimea, drawing Nazi swastikas before setting the mosque on fire in a new provocation to Crimea’s Tatar Muslim.
The attack which occurred on Thursday, June 12, was caught on surveillance cameras video which showed men throwing Molotov cocktails, Press center of Religious Administration of Muslims of Crimea reported on June 13.
Imam of Simferopol Muhammad Islamov said the incident was a provocation and the guilty would be found soon.
The attack is not the first on the mosque which faced another hate attack in 2004.
Another attack by a group of militants, identifying themselves as "Russian Orthodox Cossacks", has targeted local church of the Kyiv Patriarchate in Crimea in Perevalnoe village, during Sunday Divine Liturgy and beat members of the faithful on June 1.
The police officers, who came after three hours and stood on a side of the attackers, claimed that “Orthodox Church of Kyiv Patriarchate is anti-Russian”.
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