Gates of Vienna News Feed 6/16/2015

A French Muslim leader named Dalil Boubaker has called for the country’s empty Catholic churches to be turned into mosques. France is building new mosques at a record rate, but Mr. Boubaker says they are insufficient to meet the needs of French Muslims.

In other news, Italian authorities have evacuated migrants who were stopped at the French border near the town of Ventimiglia. The refugees, some of whom had staged a hunger strike, were transported to Ventimiglia station by the Red Cross.