About 100 French politicians marched on a street in a Paris suburb in protest against Muslims holding Friday prayers in public.
The politicians, wearing tricolour sashes of office and singing the national anthem, disrupted about 200 worshippers on a street in Clichy.
BBC reported that police kept the two groups apart but some scuffles broke out.
Critics said the prayers are an unacceptable use of public space in France’s strictly secular system.
The worshippers, however, said they have nowhere else to go since the town hall took over the room they used for prayers back in March.
France has about five million Muslims – the largest Muslim minority in Western Europe.
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