Four leaders of the Villeneuve-d'Ascq mosque (North) on trial in Lille for breach of trust, money laundering, and three of them for attempted fraud. Prosecution requested six to ten months in prison accompanied by 12 to 14 months of suspended sentence for them.
Mosque waived debts because "the high school almost closed", treasurer of mosque, Abdellah Ouafi, stressed. The CIV accounts were scrutinized after a report from the Northern prefecture in 2022 pointing to a lack of transparency in its balance sheets.