Interior Minister Gérald Darmanin announced on Monday that he had asked the prefect of Seine-Saint-Denis to close the Pantin mosque, who had notably relayed on his Facebook page a video denouncing the course on Samuel Paty's caricatures of Muhammad.
Gérald Darmanin announced Monday that he had asked the prefect of Seine-Saint-Denis to close the Pantin mosque, who had notably relayed on his Facebook page a video denouncing the course on the caricatures of Muhammad by Samuel Paty, the professor assassinated on Friday.
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"I asked the prefect of Seine-Saint-Denis to close the Pantin mosque," said the Minister of the Interior on TF1, specifying that the prefect had to "sign his ban this (Monday) evening".