Gérald Darmanin had announced his closure in January because of the anti-Semitic remarks held by the former rector on Facebook.
Le Monde with AFP
The Ministry of the Interior has renounced the “administrative closure” of the Al Madina Al Mouunawara mosque in Cannes, Tuesday, March 15 the prefecture of the Alpes-Maritimes. Gérald Darmanin, however, announced “Close” this mosque of downtown Cannes on January 12, including because of “anti-Semitic comment”.
This decision was made “last week (…) in the light of the elements supplied by the new mosque officials,” said the prefecture. “It’s wisdom and justice,” reacted the new rector of the mosque, Ahmed Guesoum, in office for eight months and waiting to be “officially informed of this decision”.
Support for Barakacity
The administrative closure procedure had been officially opened due to “hatewithing about France” and about “inciting hate against homosexuals or transsexuals” held by the former rector on the Facebook page of the mosque, had detailed the prefecture, also speaking of “an explicit anti-Semitic hatred”.
“we blame him with the anti-Semitic comments [and] supports at CCIF [Collective against Islamophobia in France] and Barakacity,” said Gérald Darmanin on CNEWS . CCIF and Barakacity, two “Islamist” associations according to the minister, were dissolved in the wake of the assassination of Professor Samuel Paty in October 2020 in Conflans-Sainte-Honorine (Yvelines), for showing caricatures of Muhammad in progress .
As part of the open contradictory procedure, the new rector of the mosque, Mr. Guesoum, who replaced the previous Imam, Mustapha Dali, retired, had transmitted information to the prefecture. The Mosque Manager “has shown that she had totally cut the bridges with the previous rector and resumed the management of the Facebook page of the mosque. The guarantees made were tried sufficient,” added the prefecture.
“I think [the Ministry of the Interior] has reconsidered the situation. They quickly realized that he was unwilling to close the mosque and deprive the six hundred faithful of their place of prayer,” added m . Guessoum, which, from January 12, had judged “unfair and unjustified” this programmed closure.
Monday The Gironde Prefecture has announced the closure for six months of the Al Farouk mosque in Pessac, in the suburbs of Bordeaux, accused of promoting “a radical Islam” and convey “a Salafist ideology”.