Suspected of fraud, five leaders of the Islamic center of Villeneuve-d'Ascq (59), including its rector Imam Mohamed Karrat, were placed under judicial supervision at the end of their police custody on Tuesday, May 2, learned
Le Figaro
.
The five religious leaders were brought by the judicial police before the Lille prosecutor's office, and are prohibited from leaving French territory.
They are summoned by minutes to a relay hearing before the court on October 5, then a new hearing on the merits which will take place on February 8, 2024.
The Villeneuve-d'Ascq mosque, which aims to be a vast "
Islamic center
" following work undertaken since the mid-2000s, is administered by an association of which Mohamed Karrat is the president.
Major expansion work on the mosque had been planned since 2013, but had been halted by the municipality's refusal to grant a new building permit.
The administrative court of Lille had rejected last year…
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