The government continues to fight against structures it considers extremist.
He announced on Wednesday that he had dissolved in the Council of Ministers the Collective against Islamophobia in France (CCIF), accused of making “Islamist propaganda”, announced Gerald Darmanin.
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".
In accordance with the instructions of the President of the Republic, the #CCIF was dissolved in the Council of Ministers.
For several years, the CCIF has consistently carried out Islamist propaganda action, as detailed in the decree that I presented to the Council of Ministers.
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- Gérald DARMANIN (@GDarmanin) December 2, 2020
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 in Conflans-Saint-Honorine (Yvelines).
Several structures already dissolved
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: the association BarakaCity, accused of "propagating ideas advocating radical Islam", and the collective "Cheikh Yassine" whose president Abdelhakim Sefrioui was indicted in the Conflans attack for "complicity in a terrorist attack".
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The leaders of BarakaCity and its founder, Driss Yemmou, known as Idriss Sihamedi, have requested “political asylum” from Turkish President Recep 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.
