France's prime minister has said he is "open" to an interim ban on the foreign financing of mosques in the country following a spate of attacks claimed by Islamic extremists.
Manuel Valls also called for imams to be "trained in France, not elsewhere" and said the nation needed to forge "a new relationship" with Islam.
He said he was "open to the idea that - for a period yet to be determined - there should be no financing from abroad for the construction of mosques".
Security forces in France are under scrutiny after it emerged both jihadists who slit the throat of a Catholic priest at a church in Saint-Etienne-du-Rouvray on Tuesday were known to police.
Nineteen-year-old Adel Kermiche was awaiting trial on terror charges and had been placed under house arrest and was wearing a tag, having attempted to twice travel to Syria.
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