The BarakaCity association was in the government's sights.
It was dissolved on Wednesday October 28 in the Council of Ministers, announced GĂ©rald Darmanin in a tweet.
She is, in fact, accused by the government of "relations within the radical Islamist movement" and of "taking pleasure in justifying terrorist acts", specified the Minister of the Interior.
This NGO, chaired by Driss Yemmou, said Idriss Sihamedi, "incited hatred, maintained relations within the radical Islamist movement, took pleasure in justifying terrorist acts", argued the Minister of the Interior, who had demanded its dissolution after the beheading of the teacher Samuel Paty in the middle of the street, in Conflans-Saint-Honorine, in the Yvelines.
The BarakaCity association was dissolved in the Council of Ministers this morning.
As detailed in the decree that I presented, it incited hatred, maintained relations within the radical Islamist movement, took pleasure in justifying terrorist acts.
To read👇 pic.twitter.com/GEDAN4S9kT
- GĂ©rald DARMANIN (@GDarmanin) October 28, 2020
Idriss Sihamedi is also suspected of cyberstalking a former Charlie Hebdo journalist and must be tried in January for these facts.
>> To read: Dissolution of the CCIF and BarakaCity, a risky legal standoff for the State
"We are asking for political asylum from our NGO in a country that guarantees the integrity of Muslims," ​​the association reacted on Twitter.
"We are doing everything we can to save the interests of our beneficiaries in 26 countries," she added.
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@Barakacity is officially dissolved by France.
We are doing everything we can to save the interests of our beneficiaries in 26 countries.
We are asking for political asylum from our NGO in a country that guarantees the integrity of Muslims.
https://t.co/hg9SJB7x4Y
- BarakaCity (@Barakacity) October 28, 2020
Last week, the Council of Ministers dissolved the pro-Palestinian collective "Cheikh Yassine", created by Abdelhakim Sefrioui, an Islamist activist indicted for "complicity in a terrorist assassination" after the conflict in Conflans-Sainte-Honorine.
The Collective against Islamophobia in France under surveillance
The Minister of the Interior is also studying the possibility of initiating a procedure to dissolve the Collective against Islamophobia in France (CCIF), which he describes as an "Islamist dispensary" working "against the Republic".
The decree pronouncing the dissolution of BarakaCity accuses it of propagating "ideas advocating radical Islamism".
"Through the personal Twitter account of its president as well as the association's Facebook and Twitter accounts, it disseminates and invites the dissemination of hateful, discriminatory and violent ideas," the decree continues.
To these measures of dissolution of associations was added, this week, the temporary closure of the mosque of Pantin, on the grounds that it notably relayed a video denouncing the course on freedom of expression of Samuel Paty, during which the latter had shown caricatures of the Prophet Muhammad.
With AFP
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