The Strasbourg city council on Monday granted functional protection to the city's EELV mayor, Jeanne Barseghian, victim of "
threats
" since the controversy over the public funding of a mosque of the association of Turkish origin Millï Görüs.
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The council granted this protection requested by the elected representative and provided for by the code of local authorities which stipulates that a municipality must "
protect the mayor or the elected municipal officials replacing him or having received a delegation against violence, threats or insults which they could to be victims
”in their functions and“ to
repair, if necessary, the damage which resulted from it
”. On March 22, after a tense debate, the city council adopted the "
principle
»A public subsidy of 2.5 million euros for the construction of the Eyyub Sultan mosque, supported by the Millî Görüs association. A new vote was, however, to release the money, conditioned in particular by the presentation by Millî Görüs of a transparent and viable financing plan. But the deliberation had aroused the ire of the Minister of the Interior Gerald Darmanin who had accused the green town hall of financing "
foreign interests
" in France, in this case those of Turkey, and accused Millî Görüs of promoting an "
Islam
".
political
”.
Faced with the controversy, Millî Görüs has since withdrawn her grant application but, since this vote, Ms. Barseghian says she is "
daily victim of threats, outrages, insults and defamation
" via letters or on social networks, she justifies in a letter dated April 20 and addressed to elected municipal officials to ask them for this protection. The text adopted on Monday thus proposes to assist the elected representative in the "
legal proceedings that she undertakes, to put an end to the attacks to which she is exposed and to ensure both her protection and adequate compensation for the harm she has suffered.
". While the controversy seemed to have subsided since Millî Görüs renounced the subsidy, the tone rose again on Monday in the Strasbourg council chamber where a "
communication on the follow-up
" to this controversial vote was on the agenda. .