Around 150 people attending a service in a church in the southern city of Carcassonne had to take cover when they were attacked with stones

Four young men burst into the Saint Joseph church and started throwing stones. There were around 150 people in the church at the time. The youths were of north African descent. Some of the parishioners tried to catch the youths before they fled. The Saint Joseph church is in a sensitive neighborhood of the city with the neighboring La Conte housing estate close by.