--- description: Eight people have been wounded with two hospitalized in a shooting outside a mosque in the southern French city of Avignon on Sunday. title: 8 Injured In a Shooting Outside a French Mosque image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt560e1875a4ae936b/6988d44f4ee26284f730dfdd/rts19ipy.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  * [World](/section/world/) ## World Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close * [France](/tag/france/) ## France Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close # Eight People Have Been Injured in a Shooting Outside a Mosque in Southern France by [Joseph Hincks](/author/joseph-hincks/) ## Joseph Hincks Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Jul 3, 2017 5:07 AM CUT  A police officer stands guard on a street near a scene of a shooting in front of a mosque, in this still image from video, in Avignon, France July 3, 2017. A police officer stands guard on a street near a scene of a shooting in front of a mosque, in this still image from video, in Avignon, France July 3, 2017.Reuters by [Joseph Hincks](/author/joseph-hincks/) ## Joseph Hincks Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Jul 3, 2017 5:07 AM CUT Eight people have been wounded with two hospitalized in a shooting outside a mosque in the southern French city of Avignon on Sunday night. Citing French daily _La Provence_, the BBC [reports](http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-40476825 "undefined") that two hooded gunmen opened fire on a crowd that included worshipers leaving the city’s Arrahma mosque at 10:30 p.m. local time. Four people were injured outside the mosque and a family of four — including a seven-year-old girl — also reportedly suffered shrapnel wounds inside a nearby apartment. Local officials said the shooting likely stemmed from a dispute between youths and was not being treated as a terrorist attack. “The fact that it happened in the street of the religious establishment was unconnected with it,” the prosecutor said. On Thursday, a man was arrested in a Paris suburb after attempting to [drive a car into worshipers](http://time.com/4840366/creteil-paris-france-mosque-car-attack/ "undefined") outside a mosque there. On June 19, nine people were injured in a similar vehicular [attack outside a mosque in North London](http://time.com/4823186/london-vehicle-crash-attack/ "undefined"). \[[_BBC_](http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-40476825 "undefined")\] ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4843489/mosque-shooting-avignon-france/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4843489/mosque-shooting-avignon-france/"},"headline":"Eight People Have Been Injured in a Shooting Outside a Mosque in Southern France","datePublished":"2017-07-03T05:07:58.000Z","dateModified":"2026-02-23T16:25:09.191Z","description":"French police are not treating the shooting as a terrorist attack","url":"https://time.com/4843489/mosque-shooting-avignon-france/","keywords":["France","onetime"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt560e1875a4ae936b/6988d44f4ee26284f730dfdd/rts19ipy.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Joseph Hincks","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/joseph-hincks/"}],"articleSection":"World","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt560e1875a4ae936b/6988d44f4ee26284f730dfdd/rts19ipy.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"A police officer stands guard on a street near a scene of a shooting in front of a mosque, in this still image from video","caption":"A police officer stands guard on a street near a scene of a shooting in front of a mosque, in this still image from video","creditText":"Reuters","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/world/","name":"World"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/france/","name":"France"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4843489/mosque-shooting-avignon-france/","name":"Eight People Have Been Injured in a Shooting Outside a Mosque in Southern France"}}]}] ```