Closures are piling up.
Interior Minister Gérald Darmanin announced that he had initiated procedures to close six places of worship and dissolve several associations, all suspected of propaganda for radical Islamism, Tuesday evening in an interview with Le Figaro.
Stressing that a third of the 89 places of worship "suspected of being radical and listed by the intelligence services" have been controlled since November 2020, Gérald Darmanin indicated that "procedures (were) initiated to close six others" in Sarthe, Meurthe-et-Moselle, Côte-d'Or, Rhône or Gard.
In addition, the fight against Islamist separatism "has been at the origin of 24,000 checks carried out in all directions and 650 closures of places frequented by fundamentalists" since the start of the five-year term, before the promulgation in August of the law against "Separatism".
Black African Defense League targeted
Gérald Darmanin also confirmed that he would ask, Wednesday in the Council of Ministers, the dissolution of the Islamist publishing house Nawa and the Black African Defense League.
Nawa, based in Ariège, "encourages the extermination of Jews and legitimizes the stoning of homosexuals", according to Gerald Darmanin.
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The Black Defense League, which made itself known through a demonstration organized against police violence in June 2020 in front of the United States Embassy in Paris, "calls for hatred and discrimination", continued the Minister of the Interior.
"In the coming year, ten other associations will be the subject of a dissolution procedure, including four from next month," he also said.
Among them, "a structure supposed to fight against Islamophobia in the Rhone, a Salafist association in the East, another which pours into the pseudo-humanitarian", specified Gérald Darmanin.
The Republican engagement contract soon in force
On September 24, the Council of State validated the dissolution by the government of the Collective against Islamophobia in France (CCIF) and Baraka City, which took place at the end of 2020 after the assassination of Professor Samuel Paty by a young Islamist.
The Minister of the Interior also said that he had asked the prefects to prohibit "any conversion of the residence permit of a seconded imam" by a foreign state.
Finally, the "republican engagement contract", provided for in the "separatism" law and which conditions the granting of public subsidies to associations on the respect of republican values, "will come into force in January 2022", indicated Gérald Darmanin.