Certificates and activity of this place of worship, frequented by individuals belonging or close to the radical Islamist movement, legitimize the use of armed jihad, death in martyr, the commission of acts of terrorism, writes the Prefecture.
Le Monde with AFP
The announcement was expected. The Prefecture of Sarthe announced, Wednesday, October 13, having initiated a closing procedure of the Mosque of Allonnes, a city of about 11,000 inhabitants southwest of Le Mans.
“Two associations installed in Allonnes, the Association Allonnaise for the middle environment (AAJM) and the association Al Qalam, manage a place of worship called the” Mosque of Allonnes “, welcoming about 300 faithful”, writes the Préfecture of Sarthe in a statement.
“According to elements collected, preaching and activity of this place of worship, frequented by individuals belonging or close to the radical Islamic movement, legitimize the use of armed jihad, death in martyr, the Commission acts of terrorism and the use of violence, hatred and discrimination, as well as the establishment of sharia “, continues the press release.
This place also houses a Koranic school “approximately 110 children in front of which the armed jihad was valued and which constitutes an indoctrination place”, according to the same source.
Also, “under the law, all of these facts is remarked, ideas and theories broadcast, or activities that incite violence, hatred or discrimination, causing the Commission. acts of terrorism or the apology of such acts “.
“In the light of these elements, at the request of the Minister of the Interior, the Prefect of Sarthe initiated a procedure for closing this place of worship,” concludes the statement.
Fight against “separatism”
At the end of September, in an interview at Figaro , Gérald Darmanin, the Minister of the Interior, and Marlène Schiappa, the Minister Delegate to Citizenship, had announced having initiated procedures to close six places of worship and dissolve several associations, all suspected of making the propaganda of radical Islamism.
They added that one third of the 89 places of worship “suspected of being radical and listed by the intelligence services” had been controlled since November 2020. In addition, the two ministers added that the fight against Islamist separatism ” At the origin of 24,000 all-round controls and 650 closures frequented by fundamentalists since the beginning of the five-year, before the promulgation in August of the law against the “separatism”.