The Council of State rejected Wednesday, November 25 the application for interim relief filed by the NGO BarakaCity to contest its dissolution pronounced by the government, which accuses it of inciting hatred and being close to radical Islamism.
"
The judge of the Council of State considers that the incriminated remarks of the president of the association can be imputed to the association itself and constitute speeches inciting to discrimination, hatred or violence, which can justify a dissolution
”, explained the Council of State in a press release announcing the decision.
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On October 28, twelve days after the assassination of Samuel Paty by a young radicalized Islamist, the government dissolved BarakaCity, accusing it of "
inciting hatred
", of maintaining links with "
the radical Islamist movement
" and of "
Justify terrorist acts
".
The decree of dissolution accused the NGO of disseminating and inviting the dissemination of “
hateful, discriminatory and violent ideas
” online with radical Islam, in particular via its Facebook and Twitter accounts or the personal Twitter account of its president and founder, Idriss Sihamedi.
The lawyers of the NGO, created in 2010 and which claims to provide aid to more than 2 million destitute people around the world, challenged this “
brutal and discretionary
” decision before the Council of State.
The NGO acts in a “
strictly humanitarian
”
framework
, does not participate in any activity “
likely to disturb public order, even less of a terrorist nature
”, they argued in their request, examined on Monday.
Popular, especially among young Muslims from working-class neighborhoods, BarakaCity has been the subject of in-depth investigations by the authorities in recent years, which have not resulted in any prosecution.
It is part, with the collective “
Cheikh Yassine
”, of the two organizations whose government announced the dissolution after the death of Samuel Paty.
The government has since announced a third, imminent one: that of the Collective against Islamophobia in France (CCIF), an association fighting against discrimination targeting Muslims accused of being an "
Islamist pharmacy working against the Republic
".
Samuel Paty, professor of history and geography, was beheaded in the middle of the street near his high school in Conflans-Sainte-Honorine (Yvelines) on October 16 by an 18-year-old Chechen Islamist who accused him of having shown caricatures in class of the Prophet Muhammad.
