Jean-Luc Boujon, edited by Yanis Darras 2:56 p.m., October 04, 2022

The city of Valence has just canceled the sale of land allowing a Muslim school to expand.

A decision which follows the suspicions of the State concerning the establishment.

Authorities suspect the school of having ties with the Muslim Brotherhood.

However, last June, the State had given the green light to the expansion of the establishment.

Rebound in Valencia.

Accepted a few months ago, the sale of land allowing the expansion of a Muslim school was canceled this Monday evening during the municipal council.

However, all the lights were green last June, when the question of the expansion of the Muslim establishment, installed in the city for ten years, had arisen.

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The town hall agreed and the National Education report was very favourable.

But in July, the prefect of Drôme asked the mayor of Valence, Nicolas Daragon, to backtrack.

"When the State, before the deliberation, tells me that the education provided in the establishment is of good quality and for it to be better, it would have to move and expand, well I sell land for this school to settle there", he explains at the microphone of Europe 1, adding "trust the State" in this kind of decision. 

Muslim Brotherhood

"And then when, the day after the deliberation, people start telling me 'You must not work (with this establishment, editor's note) for reasons related to the education given there, or because of town planning, or because of internal security', well, I listen to the people who are competent on these subjects. I simply note the inconsistency of the position of the State", he annoys. 

Behind this decision hides the suspicions of the State on the establishment.

The authorities suspect the Muslim school in Valence of maintaining a close relationship with the Muslim Brotherhood.

"It's discrimination, it's as simple as that," says Mourad Djabri, one of the school officials. 

"Incoherent and unacceptable"

"It's a project that is republican", he continues at the microphone of Europe 1. And to add: "How can we accuse a school of being close to the Muslim Brotherhood when there is no religious courses, that we want to go under contract and that we do not accept foreign funding? It is completely incoherent and unacceptable", concludes Mourad Djabri. 

This official announces it: the establishment wishes to lodge a complaint against the prefecture and the town hall of Valence.