The mayor of Roubaix filed a complaint for threats after a controversial report by M6 partly devoted to Islamism in his city, which had already led to the police protection of the presenter Ophélie Meunier and a young Roubaisien, said Wednesday February 9 the Lille prosecutor's office to AFP.
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In a press release on January 28, the elected various right, Guillaume Delbar, had assured receiving "
more than a dozen
" messages each day, regretting having become "
a living target
".
These threats follow the broadcast on January 23 of a report by the “
Zone Interdite
” program on M6, devoted to the “
dangers of radical Islam
”.
There were mentioned the links between the mayor and an association of the city, "
Ambitions and initiatives for success
" (AAIR), suspected of providing "
Koranic courses
" under the guise of Arabic lessons with tens of thousands of euros. public funds, especially municipal ones.
Gérald Darmanin shows his support
Guillaume Delbar and three members of the association are summoned on October 13 before the Lille Criminal Court for these facts, the first for embezzlement of public funds “
by negligence
”, the others for “
breach of trust
” between 2016 and 2020. “
I may have been deceived, I could have been wrong
” by supporting “
an association which had just split with a mosque that had become Salafist
”, had argued Guillaume Delbar.
Interior Minister Gérald Darmanin posted his support for his "
friend
" on BFMTV on Tuesday.
“
Nothing today allows us to say that the mayor of Roubaix was responsible for what could be called communitarianism
,” he declared.
"
Nobody can think that the young mayor of Roubaix is responsible for 30, 40, sometimes 50 years of renunciation of the Republic
”, he estimated.
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They also threatened after the report, the presenter Ophélie Meunier, as well as a young lawyer by training from Roubaix, Amine Elbahi, who appears as a witness, were placed under police protection.
The Roubaisien filed a complaint.
Amine Elbahi had alerted the northern prefecture at the end of 2020 to this association.
In the background, suspicions of clientelism against Guillaume Delbar.
After investigation, the prefecture said it had found that "
Arabic courses of a religious nature
" were well provided there.
But the president of the association, Nordine Khabzaoui, refutes any "
proselytizing activity
".
