Strasbourg
Born in the district of Meinau, in Strasbourg, the affair took on a national scale.
By granting the Islamic Confederation Milli Gorus a sum of 2.5 million euros for the construction of the giant Eyyub Sultan mosque, the mayor EELV Jeanne Barseghian aroused the ire of Gerald Darmanin.
The Minister of the Interior went so far as to accuse him of
"financing foreign interference on French soil".
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In Strasbourg, this stance was seen as an interference with Alsatian-Moselle religious law.
A first in the relations between the State and the communities.
However, the mayor, by proposing to his municipal council to subsidize “
the largest mosque in Europe”
carried by the Milli Gorus, already well advanced with its eight domes, had broken with the “jurisprudence” of his predecessors.
Including Socialist Minister Catherine Trautmann, her ally, who had warned her and refused to take part in the vote.
On the merits, the minister
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