• Monday, the rector of Toulouse, announced to have reported to justice a Muslim school out of contract in Toulouse for "obvious failings at the educational and administrative level".

  • He also warned parents to register their children elsewhere.

    But administratively, the school remains open.

  • The mayor of Toulouse gives him his support and asks the Minister of National Education "to act" to close the establishment.

The rector of Toulouse Mostafa Fourar announced Monday that he had reported to justice the Muslim school Al-Badr (now Avicenna) and had given notice to the parents of students - 130 from primary to college - of this establishment outside contract to register their children elsewhere for the start of the school year. This approach is based in particular on two controls during which no material or teaching "allowing to give to the pupils the bases of the mathematical, scientific and technological culture" could not be identified.

This decision of the rector received the support of Jean-Luc Moudenc (LR), the mayor of Toulouse.

But the councilor also wrote on Monday to Jean-Michel Blanquer asking him "to act to the extent of all [his possibilities]".

"You know very well that [local communities] do not have the legal means to act in the face of these shortcomings," explains the councilor to Jean-Michel Blanquer.

Indeed at this stage, we cannot decide on an administrative closure, which can only be applied after a court decision ”.

The mayor thus underlines the paradox of a school, admittedly theoretically without pupils, but which remains open.

The school had won a first standoff

This is not the first time that the Al-Badr school has appeared in the news.

In 2016, she was ordered to close its doors by the Toulouse Criminal Court.

Its director, Imam Abdelfattah Rahhaoui, known for his conservatism, was sentenced to four months in prison and banned from running an educational establishment.

But in December 2018, the Toulouse Court of Appeal overturned these decisions.

Samin Bolaky, the school's lawyer, interviewed by AFP, does not hesitate to recall these "legal victories".

He denounces a "relentlessness" of the rectorate.

He also urgently appealed to the Toulouse administrative court to challenge the rector's decision to ask parents to enroll their children in other establishments.

The judgment was reserved.

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