The Pantin mosque (Seine-Saint-Denis) will remain closed, the administrative justice ruled on Tuesday.
Interior Minister Gerald Darmanin announced, three days after the assassination of Samuel Paty, the closure for six months of this mosque.
But the Muslim Federation of Pantin (Seine-Saint-Denis) had filed an interim relief against this decision.
“The Montreuil administrative court has just confirmed the administrative closure of the Pantin mosque,” Gerald Darmanin immediately relayed on Twitter.
The Montreuil administrative court has just confirmed the administrative closure of the Pantin mosque.
The governing bodies of this mosque had relayed the video targeting Samuel Paty.
- Gérald DARMANIN (@GDarmanin) October 27, 2020
To motivate the closing decree, the prefect of Seine-Saint-Denis had relied on several points, in particular.
the publication of the video of the student's parent calling for mobilization against Samuel Paty after he showed caricatures of the Prophet Muhammad to his students.
He was assassinated a few days later.
The decree also mentions anti-public school statements published on M'hammed Henniche's social networks, the presence of a radical imam within the Pantin mosque, as well as contacts between the patron of the place of worship with the controversial Islamologist Tariq Ramadan.
The Great Mosque of Pantin is frequented by some 1,500 worshipers.
VIDEO. Darmanin: "I asked to close the Pantin mosque"