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Who is behind BarakaCity, the association in the sights of the authorities

2020-10-26T17:38:54.318Z


PODCAST. The Muslim NGO is threatened with dissolution following the Conflans attack. Idriss Sihamedi, its president, who describes himself as


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Summary :

Two days after the assassination of Samuel Paty, the Minister of the Interior Gérald Darmanin announces that 51 associations, suspected of having connections with radical Islam, are in the crosshairs of the authorities.

He promises to dissolve several, including BarakaCity, which he mentions by name.

Created in 2008, this Muslim NGO based in Evry-Courcouronnes (Essonne) raises millions of euros in annual donations to provide humanitarian aid abroad.

Its founder Driss Yemmou, says Idriss Sihamedi, very active on social networks, describes himself as an orthodox Muslim and multiplies provocations on the Internet.

In October, he was taken into police custody twice and then under judicial supervision, suspected of having launched cyberbullying campaigns against a former Charlie Hebdo journalist and an RMC columnist, both involved in the fight against Islamism.

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Nicolas Goinard, editor of the Essonne du Parisien, and Bartolomé Simon, journalist with the Essonne edition, come back to the suspicions hanging over the association and its controversial president.

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