French PM ‘open’ to temporary ban on foreign financing of mosques

Paris (AFP) – France’s prime minister said Friday he was “open” to a temporary ban on the foreign financing of mosques, after a spate of attacks in the country claimed by jihadists.

Manuel Valls also admitted in an interview with the Le Monde daily it was a “failure” that one of the jihadists who attacked a church and killed a priest earlier this week had been released with an electronic tag.