Prefecture of Oise orders temporary closure of great mosque of Beauvais

The religious establishment will be closed for six months due to “hate”, “violence” and “apologized”. “Caption”>

The prefecture of the Oise ordered the closure of the Great Mosque of Beauvais for six months, in particular because of “hate” preaching, “to violence” and “making the apology of jihad”, Did she announced, Tuesday, December 28th.

“The prefect of the Oise took a stop on the closure of the great mosque of Beauvais for a period of six months. This decree is enforceable after forty-eight hours,” said the prefecture. Samim Bolaky, the lawyer of the Association Hope and Fraternity, who manages this mosque, announced to the France-Presse agency (AFP) having seized the Administrative Court of Amiens in order to challenge this decision.

On December 14, the Minister of the Interior, Gérald Darmanin, had announced having engaged the administrative closure procedure of this mosque because of him, according to him, the radicality of the loans. “We engaged the closure of the Beauvais mosque, [which is] quite unacceptable, fighting Christians, homosexuals, the Jews,” said the minister on the CNEWS television channel.

Apology of jihad and hate incentive

m. Bolaky had then felt that the authorities were aimed at “certain remarks in the context of the loans by one of the imams of the mosque – since suspended – which intervened on a voluntary basis”. The Association Hope and Fraternity has “always fought terrorism, has always favored living-together. It is a mosque that is respectable,” he said.

According to the Ministry of the Interior, this Imam, “presented as an occasional speaker but who, in reality, acts as IMAM attittered,” would have given the words “the apology of jihad and fighters, that He qualifies as heroes “. He would also have defended “a rigor practice of Islam” and “his superiority compared to the laws of the Republic”. In addition, his remarks “distorts” the “disbelievers and present Western societies like Islamophobia, had detailed the ministry. They push “the faithful to break with the Republic” and “encourage the hatred of homosexuals, Jews and Christians”.

Renewed charges by the prefect of the Oise, Corinne Ozechowski, In Parisian : “For several months, an imam of this mosque makes antirepublican preaching where he explains that religious laws have priority over the laws of the Republic. There was also an apology of jihad, which can be considered as a Call for terrorism, and discriminating remarks to homosexuals and women. “

/Media reports.