The Minister of the Economy Bruno Le Maire, on October 20, 2020 at the Assembly.

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AFP

The Minister of the Economy Bruno Le Maire indicated on Friday that he wanted to make compulsory the declaration of foreign funding received by religious associations, in order to better fight against the funding of "political Islam".

"I propose that henceforth any sum coming from abroad, from a certain amount, when it goes towards a religious association, be declared obligatorily in the prefecture, so that it is controlled", declared the minister on Europe 1. Currently, this funding is simply "controlled by the intelligence services but is not necessarily declared", he explained.

Check cards sold in tobacco shops

In addition, it wants to make obligatory the “identification” of the people who buy prepaid payment cards accessible in the tobacco shops.

“We need to be as meticulous, precise and stubborn as our opponents,” said Bruno Le Maire.

The minister also wants to make digital platforms on which hate messages or calls for violence are expressed.

He wants them to be able to be "prosecuted and fined", for example "up to 4% of their worldwide turnover", if they do not withdraw "without delay the messages of revenge directly targeting our compatriots “, He proposed in an interview with

Figaro

.

The Mayor denounces the "small renunciations"

A week after the murder of Professor Samuel Paty, the minister also strongly denounced "all those who today support, excuse political Islam".

They "are complicit in the will of this political Islam to bring down the French nation", he ruled.

"The local elected officials who tolerate the differentiated openings of swimming pools, behaviors which are not respectful of our republican rules, by their cowardice, by their small renouncements, by their reasonable accommodations, basically continue to fuel political Islam “, He denounced.

In his interview with

Le Figaro

, he also explicitly cited "certain political parties, such as La France insoumise or a fraction of the Greens who relay the speeches on Islamophobia by calculation or by ideology", as well as "certain student unions like the UNEF "Or" the complicity "with" all the States which shelter, support or finance the Muslim Brotherhood ".

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