FRANCE TO CLOSE SIX MOSQUES AND DISBAND ASSOCIATIONS SUSPECTED OF RADICALISM

Thu 30 September 2021:

Interior Minister Gerard Darmanin announced on Tuesday that France is closing six mosques and disbanding other organizations suspected of spreading extremist propaganda.

A third of the 89 places of worship “suspected of being radical” and flagged by the intelligence services had been checked since November 2020, he told Le Figaro newspaper.

Of those, action to shut down six – in five different départements across France – had been launched, he said.

The government will also demand that the Islamist publisher Nawa and the Black African Defense League (LDNA) be disbanded.

The LDNA, the organisers of a protest against police violence in front of the US embassy in Paris in June last year, “calls for hate and discrimination”, he said.

“In the coming year, 10 other associations are going to be the object of a dissolution procedure, four them next month,” he said.

The government’s decision to disband the Collective against Islamophobia in France (CCIF) and Baraka City was accepted by the Council of State, France’s highest administrative court, last week.

Following the assassination of teacher Samuel Paty in October 2020, the government took action.

Paty was targeted after an online campaign was launched against him for showing controversial caricatures of the Prophet Mohammed published by the satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo in a civics class.

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