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Macron studies dissolving Islamist associations after the beheading of a professor near Paris

2020-10-19T13:04:19.143Z


The French Government has opened more than 80 investigations into the campaign of harassment and hate messages on the Internet against the victim of the terrorist attack


Emmanuel Macron wants to intensify the fight against radical Islamism after the beheading, on Friday, of a professor who taught, among others, classes on freedom of expression.

But it is not clear what new measures could be taken beyond those the French president announced in early October in a programmatic speech against what he called "Islamist separatism" in France.

Some of the associations and personalities that are now targeted by the authorities have been spreading radical messages for some time without being outlawed or condemned.

Interior Minister Gérald Darmanin announced on Monday his intention to call for the dismantling of several organizations, including the Collective against Islamophobia in France (CCIF, in its French acronym) and Baraka City.

The police have launched operations against dozens of individuals who, although not directly related to the attack, should know that "there will be no rest before the enemies of the Republic," declared Darmanin on the Europe 1 radio chain. opened more than 80 hate investigations on the Internet against "those who, apologetically, explained in one way or another that the professor had asked for it."

Macron needs to show that he acts after an attack that, for the first time, has hit the school, the symbolic nucleus of the Republic, and that he has reminded the French that, after almost a decade of attacks that have left 290 dead, the threat terrorist is still there.

The government's target is legal associations that promote radical Islamism.

Some of these organizations helped spread what the minister called a fatwa - that is, a legal decision by a religious authority - against Samuel Paty, the beheaded teacher at the Conflans-Sainte-Honorine secondary school, near Paris.

Darmanin was referring to the campaign that the father of a 13-year-old student launched on social media against the minor's history and geography teacher.

They helped amplify this campaign from a preacher named Abdelhakim Sefrioui, known to the French security services, to organizations that denounced an alleged case of Islamophobia and discrimination at school.

The campaign incited the harassment of the professor and made his case known in radical Islamist circles.

On October 5, Paty had taught a class on freedom of expression in which she showed two cartoons of Muhammad published by the satirical magazine

Charlie Hebdo

.

Eleven days later, on October 16, Abdoulakh Anzorov, an 18-year-old refugee of Chechen origin who was not his student and lived 80 kilometers from there, appeared at the school, asked the students of the center for information about the teacher and After locating him, he attacked him with a knife, cut off his head and spread the images on Twitter with a vindictive message.

Shortly thereafter, he was shot nine times by the police.

Eleven people, including the student's father and the preacher, are being held for questioning.

There are no defendants for now.

After a three-hour meeting on Sunday night, Macron tasked his ministers with preparing concrete actions that could be taken at Wednesday's Council of Ministers.

The Government has a list of 51 associations that will be examined in the coming days.

Some could be dissolved, like the CCIF.

"I wish it," Darmanin declared.

“Because here is a manifestly implicated association, because the father who launched a fatwa against the teacher was referring to this association.

It is an association that receives State aid and benefits from tax deductions.

Denounce State Islamophobia.

And we have elements to think that they are enemies of the Republic ”.

Source: elparis

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