Gauthier Delomez 1:09 p.m., February 20, 2024
The imam of Bagnols-sur-Cèze, Mahjoub Mahjoubi, is in the sights of the authorities after comments made during a sermon. In the program “Pascal Praud et vous”, every day from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. on Europe 1, the vice-president of the French Council of Muslim Worship denounced ambiguous remarks. Listen to the excerpt again. You can react at 01.80.20.39.21.
By qualifying the tricolor as a "satanic flag", the imam of Bagnols-sur-Cèze, Mahjoub Mahjoubi, is in the sights of the Minister of the Interior Gérald Darmanin, who has requested his expulsion from the territory for what he considers be “calls to hatred”. Abdallah Zekri, vice-president of the French Council of Muslim Worship (CFCM), denounced the imam's "ambiguous" remarks on the show
Pascal Praud et vous
. "I considered the first day that he crossed the red line (...) What interest does he have in telling that in a sermon? (...) There, he lost his temper to tell things like that", he said, believing that he should be "forbidden from preaching in his mosque".