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(IsraelNN.com) A can of pink paint was thrown at the entrance to a mosque in Geneva on Thursday morning.

Kol Yisrael government radio reports it was the third such an attack in recent weeks. At the start of November, a car drove in the mosque's neighborhood, playing sounds imitating the call to prayer. Later, rocks were thrown at the mosque, damaging the mosaic that adorns it.

A referendum is scheduled in three days on a proposal to ban the building of minarets.