The prefect of the Gironde department, Fabienne Buccio, launched an ” interlocutory procedure ” on Thursday to impose a temporary closure (for up to six months) of the Al-Farouk mosque in Pessac in the Gironde. In the sermons given by the imams, assassinations were allegedly justified and martyrdom vowed.
The mosque is managed by the association “Rassemblement des musulmans de Pessac” and has been opened since 2014 in the town of 65,000 inhabitants, which borders Bordeaux. According to information provided to Le Figaro, it regularly hosts imams “known for their affiliation to the Islamist movement and their Salafist ideology”. The institution is also said to have supported other organisations or individuals propagating “armed jihad”.
The sermons and statements promoted by the mosque’s leaders and supporters are said to have regularly called for flouting the laws of the republic. Attacks are said to have been justified and martyrdom is said to have been promoted. Finally, the mosque “disseminated a rigid view of Islam and hateful publications against Israel”, according to our information. […]Le Figaro