The Minister of National Education, Nicole Belloubet, announced Monday morning her intention to close in Nice (Alpes-Maritimes) a private Muslim college outside of a contract, the Avicenne college, due to “an
opaque financing problem”
.
“contrary to the law”
anti-separatism.
“After several relaunches”
, the college with four classes from 6th to 3rd according to its website
“was not very clear about its sources of financing”
, estimated Nicole Belloubet on France 2, which is
“contrary to the law of 2021, the anti-separatism law
.
“This is why I asked the rector of the Nice academy to clearly apply the 2021 law and to propose to the prefect the closure of this establishment, taking into account the academic situation of the students”
, she continued.
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Board of state
The minister specified that the authorities were going to
“announce the closure”
with implementation
“postponed to September”
to
“be able to take care of the students”
of this college located in the Ariane district in Nice, a district among the most poor people in the city of Nice.
This announcement comes a few months after the decision of the prefect of the North to end public subsidies for the Averroès high school, the main Muslim secondary school in France, from the start of the 2024 school year.
A State decision confirmed in summary proceedings by the Lille administrative court on February 12.
The establishment indicated that it would contact the Council of State to contest this decision.