Paris (AFP)
Europe Ecology - The Greens denounced Wednesday the "media cabal orchestrated by the majority" about the subsidy granted by the ecological municipality of Strasbourg to the construction of a mosque supported by a pro-Turkish association.
Wednesday was marked by a new pass of arms between the Minister of the Interior Gerald Darmanin and the councilor Jeanne Barseghian, whom he accused of "financing foreign interference on French soil".
While recalling the arguments developed by Jeanne Barseghian, the party led by Julien Bayou criticized in a press release the development of the controversy, which it considers to be in line with the episodes on the single menu without meat in the canteen or the Tour de France.
"For the umpteenth time, environmentalists are the target of a media cabal orchestrated by the majority party, which, feverish at the approach of electoral deadlines, does not hesitate to defame its political opponents and seek to discredit them "writes EELV.
"For the umpteenth time, this government falls into sterile controversy and tries to ignite backfires in order to better hide its own renouncements in ecological and social matters", while the Climate law is being examined in the National Assembly, adds the left.
For his part, the EELV mayor of Grenoble Eric Piolle said he was "scandalized" to AFP, "that the President of the Republic dropped a bomb (Tuesday on France 5, Editor's note) on a possible Turkish interference on the presidential "and that immediately after" his ministers come to point the finger at the mayor of Strasbourg ".
He denounced a "culture of fracture at a time when we are on a crest path with the push of political Islam, the risk of terrorism and the rise of the extreme right and of identities".
In a video, the leader of the rebels Jean-Luc Mélenchon denounced the "hypocrisy" of the majority, including Gérald Darmanin "the chief hypocrite", who responded with "cries" to the proposal of his group of deputies to abolish the Concordat in Alsace and Moselle, an "old factory".
The mayor PS of Paris Anne Hidalgo for her part indicated that the subsidy to this mosque, she "would not have done" because "an association which does not recognize itself in secularism or in the values of the Republic, it is a problem ".
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