At the microphone of Sonia Mabrouk on Europe 1 Tuesday, Gérald Darmanin strongly condemned the Millî Görüs association, close to Turkey, at the origin of a mosque project in Strasbourg.
He also pointed the finger at the town hall EELV which participates in the financing of this future place of worship.
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The Minister of the Interior, invited Tuesday to the morning of Europe 1, again condemned the financing by the EELV city hall of Strasbourg of a mosque project carried by the association Millî Görüs.
"We can dissolve or suspend these associations. The objective is that the enemies of the Republic can no longer continue to live in France," said Gérald Darmanin at the microphone of Sonia Mabrouk.
He also indicated that the association was excluded from the Territorial Assizes of Islam.
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Monday March 22, the Municipal Council of Strasbourg, in Alsace, adopted "the principle of a subsidy" of more than 2.5 million euros for the construction of a mosque of Millî Görüs, a reputed association close to Turkey .
The Minister of the Interior was strongly opposed to this financing on his Twitter account.
The main reason ?
Millî Görüs, the association in question did not wish to sign the charter of values of the Republic concocted by the government for Muslim institutions.
"Let us ask local communities to be responsible"
The position taken by the Minister of the Interior is singled out, in particular by the daily
Liberation
.
In fact, in 2019 and 2020, a school construction authorization and grant agreements were signed by the State.
And Gérald Darmanin does not refute them.
"Before, no one had asked them to sign the charter of the President of the Republic. Now, I can tell you that the instruction is: no funding no longer concerns this association," he assures us.
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The Minister of the Interior therefore directly calls into question the green town hall of Strasbourg.
It "continues to finance this association" deemed separatist by Gerald Darmanin.
"Let us ask local communities to be responsible," he proclaims.
Before concluding: "I regret once again, that after all these alerts, an association which does not sign this charter, the incredible remarks of President Erdogan on France, and on the President of the Republic, with what we know political Islam and sometimes foreign interference on our soil, the green town hall of Strasbourg continues to wish to finance this place of worship ".