Special envoy to Tourcoing
At 5:47 p.m. sharp, on September 29, the third prayer of the day, Salat Asr, was sung at the Es-Salam mosque, rue de la Croix-Rouge, in Tourcoing (North).
Twenty-six men, a third of whom are under 30, perform this ritual.
Some have already come three times since dawn.
They will come back twice by night, since there are five prayers a day.
All are lay people.
The imam being absent, it is an elderly Muslim who leads the prayer.
Dignity and fervor are essential.
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At the same time, an identical scene takes place in the four other mosques of this city of 90,000 inhabitants, bordering Belgium and inserted in the metropolis of Lille.
Gérald Darmanin was the mayor from 2014 to 2017 and a few months in 2020, before being appointed Minister of the Interior, in charge of worship.
It was to him that Emmanuel Macron entrusted the task of drafting the first version of the future law on “separatism”.
The president must present the major
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