One dissolution procedure may hide another.
After launching on Monday a process to dissolve the Black African Defense League, the Minister of the Interior Gérald Darmanin launches the same procedure this Friday, but this time with regard to Nawa, a publishing house based in Ariège, department where a jihadist network had been dismantled in the town of Artigat.
A measure to freeze assets targeting the association and its leaders was also taken Thursday, according to a decree published in the Official Journal.
Nawa would have allowed the distribution of "several works legitimizing the jihad", indicates this Friday the entourage of the minister.
“Its editorial line is clearly anti-universalist and in direct contestation of Western values.
It has distributed several works legitimizing jihad ”and its leaders are“ linked to the jihadist sphere ”, according to the same source.
A 13-year-old association
The association, whose full name is “Nawa Center for Oriental Studies and Translation” is an “associative publishing house”, said the entourage.
It had been declared in the sub-prefecture of Pamiers in 2008.
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The publishing house presents itself on its website as having "the will to promote the human and political sciences stemming from the Muslim heritage" and to contribute "to the renewal of these disciplines through the study of the Western world or Western science, l 'history of contemporary political ideas and doctrines'.
According to the Official Journal, Nawa is currently directed by Abû Soleiman Al-Kaabi and Aïssam Aït Yahya, themselves authors of several books.
"The Muslim interlocutors of the media and the State are docile Republican imams", regretted Aïssam Aï Yahya in an interview devoted to the weekly Le Point in 2016. The latter was pleased that the "new generation" is "less malleable. ".