Sibeth Ndiaye, the spokesman of the government, went Thursday in the neighborhood of Meinau, Strasbourg, where social actors fear that the recent debates on the veil and Islam do not cause radicalization of some young people.

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The question is sensitive, and worries social actors in some neighborhoods. Do not recent polemics ultimately promote a form of radicalization, especially among young people in the Muslim community? This is the problem that was addressed on Friday the spokesman of the government, Sibeth Ndiaye, during his visit to the district of Meinau, Strasbourg.

Since "turning in a loop" on the veil, Islam, and immigration, the climate is not "healthy" at Meineau, says Ahmed, the socio-cultural center. "What really scares me in the coming months is the ambient rhetoric that stigmatizes an entire population.Young people also start having an extreme speech, in the sense that they really feel persecuted as French Muslims" he said, addressing the government spokesperson.

"Fight on the soil of radicalization"

The district of Meinau was not chosen by chance for the visit of Sibeth Ndiaye. In recent years, several cases of radicalized youth have been detected. Responding to Ahmed, the spokeswoman, said it was "a bit exhausting" to have "debates that are not the most useful debates" to combat this "terrible phenomenon of radicalization" . Debates, she says, that could even lead to "over-radicalization".

"The major issue today is not that of the veil, the most important thing is to be able to fight on the soil of radicalization, namely a form of community enclosure," added the door. Floor-. At La Meinau, concludes a specialist educator of radicalization, "the debate on the veil has sacked months of work of the associations".