Khaberni - After being burned in February 2025, the Garge mosque near the Orleans area received a letter threatening to burn the place of worship, which the worshippers hope to rebuild, according to what was reported by the French site Mediapart.
Samia Deshir added in her report that the new threat letter arrived at the mailbox of the French-Turkish Cultural Association in Garge - the owner of the city's mosque - on October 28, 2025.
"No mosque in Garge, no need to rebuild it, it will quickly burn," was the content of the message reminding what happened on the night of February 26, 2025, when the prayer hall owned by the association was deliberately set on fire, three days before Ramadan.
Deshir said that the mosque received its first handwritten message saying "Get out, Turks," back in 2023.
Ali Ozturk, a member of the association, was quoted as saying: "We are disgusted, the first time we received a message, it ended with the mosque being burned, so we cannot underestimate that, it shows that there is always someone or a group close to us posing a threat to the community."
Since the mosque was burned months ago, the Muslims have been praying in a temporary hall set up at the headquarters of the association, which has applied for a permit to build a new prayer hall to replace the one destroyed by the fire and nothing remains of it, the site explains.
Although the public prosecutor in Orleans has opened an investigation, the perpetrators have not been identified, the report explains.
The site also questioned who was behind these anti-Islam messages full of spelling mistakes, quoting Ali Ozturk saying that it is clear there is a desire to sow discord in the Muslim community.
One year after the investigations - the site continues - there is still no substantial evidence, and Ozturk commented on this saying: "We are amazed, we do not understand how no results have been reached after all these months, if we still receive messages like this, it means that the necessary actions have not been taken."
The public prosecutor in Orleans told the site that she "understands the impatience of civil parties," but she confirmed that "the procedures are proceeding at a normal pace," before adding that the investigation "was handled with the utmost seriousness and referred to the investigation squad."
Mediapart confirmed that the Garge mosque is not the only victim of rising Islamophobia, as in 2024, five mosques in the Orleans area received similar threat letters.
