The government dissolved Wednesday, December 2, in the Council of Ministers, the Collective against Islamophobia in France (CCIF), accused of making "
Islamist propaganda
", announced Gérald Darmanin.
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Last Friday, the collective had decided to take the lead by announcing to be "
self-dissolved
".
It had already redeployed its activities and its headquarters abroad shortly before.
The Minister of the Interior argued in a tweet on Wednesday that "
for several years, the CCIF has consistently carried out Islamist propaganda
".
Its dissolution was announced by the government in the wake of the beheading, on October 16, of Samuel Paty, professor of history and geography in a college of Conflans-Saint-Honorine in the Yvelines.
During the notification of the dissolution project, the CCIF had criticized the Minister of the Interior for having "
yielded to the calls of the extreme right
" and assured that he would continue "
to provide legal assistance to people who are victims of Islamophobia. and will inform (it) international bodies of the state of play in the fight against discrimination and for equality in France
”.
Since October, two structures have already been dissolved in the Council of Ministers for similar reasons.
These are BarakaCity, accused of "
propagating ideas advocating radical Islam
", and the collective "
Cheik Yassine
" whose President Abdelhakim Sefrioui was indicted in the Conflans attack for "
complicity in a terrorist attack
".
The leaders of BarakaCity and its founder, Driss Yemmou, known as Idriss Sihamedi, have requested "
political asylum
" from Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan.
The government also ordered the administrative closure for six months of the Pantin mosque, on the grounds that it had relayed a video denouncing Samuel Paty's course on freedom of expression during which the history teacher had shown caricatures of Muhammad.
The Council of State confirmed the dissolution of BarakaCity and the closure of the Pantin mosque.