The police positioned in front of the college where a professor of history and geography was beheaded at the end of the afternoon on Friday October 16 in Conflans Sainte-Honorine, in the Yvelines.
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Police operations have been carried out since Monday morning and will continue in the coming days against "dozens of individuals" from the Islamist movement, announced the Minister of the Interior.
These operations, decided following the Defense Council held on Sunday, do not target individuals "necessarily linked to the investigation" into the assassination of Samuel Paty but aim to "convey a message: (...) not for a minute respite for the enemies of the Republic ”, said Gerald Darmanin on Europe 1, without further details.
"These are administrative and not judicial police visits," said Gerald Darmanin's entourage on Monday.
We have about 40 of them during the day.
A good thirty have already been carried out.
There are about ten left both in the police zone and in the gendarmerie zone.
These are visits which were decided upon on indications of the territorial intelligence and general direction of the internal security.
They require the prior authorization of the judges of freedoms.
Twelve departments are targeted.
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Associations dissolved soon
Since the assassination of Professor de Conflans Saint-Honorine on Friday, "more than 80 investigations" have also been opened for online hatred and arrests have taken place, added the Minister of the Interior, who said he wanted to dissolve several associations including the Collective against Islamophobia in France (CCIF).
"Fifty-one associative structures will see a certain number of visits from state services all week long and several of them, on my proposal, will be dissolved in the Council of Ministers," announced Gerald Darmanin.
The Minister said he wanted the dissolution of the CCIF, according to him "obviously involved" and of which "a certain number of elements allow us to think that it is an enemy of the Republic".
He "receives state aid, tax deductions and denounces state Islamophobia".
He also cited the NGO Baraka City, founded by Muslims with a Salafist profile, whose President Driss Yemmou was placed under judicial supervision on Thursday as part of an investigation for harassment on social networks.
"Propagators of separatism"
The association, whose Facebook account is followed by more than 715,000 people, arouses strong enthusiasm among many young believers but also suspicion for its sometimes radical positions.
"These associations and a few others are accused of being propagators of separatism, that is to say of not only preaching the values of Islam but of preaching that Islam is superior to the laws of the Republic. », Developed the entourage of Gérald Darmanin.
The dissolution procedure, which requires passing a decree in the Council of Ministers, will be based on a "double foundation" with on the one hand "what affects the apology of terrorism and identity and religious hatred" and the other, "which affects public order", we explained from the same source.
Regarding the CCIF or BarakaCity, "there is not yet a timetable" for the presentation of the decree, we told AFP.
The two associations firmly deny the accusations of proximity to political Islam or even extremism.
"We have no valid reason given"
"Today, we have no valid reason given," BarakaCity lawyer Samim Bolaky told AFP.
He also underlines that an investigation into suspicions of terrorism targeting the NGO was, after three years, dismissed by the Paris prosecutor's office in March 2019. “Everything relating to the association was combed through end.
If there was the slightest offense charged against the BarakaCity association, today it would be referred to the criminal court ”
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