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French Interior Minister closes mosque in Paris suburb
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“You have proclaimed a fatwa, we are sending you a clear message”
He showed his students cartoons of Muhammad in class, as a result of which a teacher was killed in an Islamist attack in France. According to the French Minister of the Interior, the act was caused by a fatwa.
French Interior Minister Gérald Darmanin draws the first conclusions about the terrorist attack in which a professor was beheaded. The minister closes a mosque that posted a video on Facebook denouncing the victim’s teaching.
northAfter the beheading of a teacher, the French Interior Minister Gérald Darmanin ordered the closure of a mosque in a Paris suburb. The mosque shared a video on the online service Facebook, denouncing the teaching of the slain teacher, the minister told TF1 on Monday. On the same day, according to the ministry, there were 34 police operations against individuals and associations said to be close to the Islamist spectrum.
Islamists “are not necessarily connected” to the teacher’s murder, Darmanin said. Rather, the missions were intended to “convey a message: not a minute’s delay for the enemies of the republic.”
The minister accused the imam of the closed mosque in the Parisian suburb of Pantin of threatening the teacher and of having published the school’s address.
The 47-year-old history teacher was beheaded by an 18-year-old on Friday near his school in Conflans-Sainte-Honorine, near Paris. He and his students had discussed the issue of freedom of expression in the classroom, using cartoons of Muhammad.
French investigators assume an Islamist-motivated terrorist attack. The attacker was shot and killed by police after the crime.
A group called BarakaCity, against which the French authorities also want to act, accused the Interior Minister of the online service Twitter of going “crazy” and taking advantage of a tragedy. The group describes itself as a humanitarian organization.
