François Grosdidier (LR), Mayor of Metz and President of Metz Métropole, is close to the Grand Imam of Metz. Hence his proposal to help build a huge mosque in Metz.
Sitting in the sun during the heatwave, the LR Party mayor of Metz, François Grosdidier, had a vision. Allah appeared to him in the sky above Metz. One of those once-in-a-lifetime apparitions. Immediately during the opening of the Eid Al Adha celebrations in the football stadium with the Grand Imam of Metz, François Grosdidier (LR), former Member of Parliament and Senator, Mayor of Metz and President of Metz Métropole, decided to speed up the construction of a mega-mosque in Metz.
This project of a gigantic building with a floor area of 5,649 m2 on a plot of 11,843 m2, equipped with a museum for immigration but also an institute for the Arab world, with a minaret 34 metres high that can host 1,500 Muslims at a single prayer, is said to be a competitor for the largest mosque in Europe, which is being built in Strasbourg. These technical elements were confirmed by a local official from the technical services of Metz City Hall, who was contacted by telephone on Monday. She added: “François Grosdidier signed the building permit for the mosque several months ago.
Of course, people on the river Moselle have become accustomed to pharaonic spending on Muslims and migrants, with no return on investment.
Mayor François Grosdidier has crossed the red line several times
Before this “religious trance”, François Grosdidier, who is close to President Jacques Chirac, was rather known for his trouble with the judiciary, as a good client of investigating judges. Very often involved in court cases, François Grosdidier was fined €6,000 on April 19, 2021 for “misappropriation of public funds”.
“Among the numerous lawsuits that have affected François Grosdidier, we mention, when he was a senator, the financing of defence costs in a court case with the Grand Orient de France and a lease with an option to buy a car”, confided to us by telephone this Monday July 26, a police commissioner from Metz specialised in financial matters, who prefers to remain anonymous. “Because the man has important connections,” added this top police officer specialised in financial crime.
According to the Messin police officer, “François Grosdidier was also convicted of aiding and abetting the illegal taking of interest, as three of his deputies did not leave the city council meeting during the vote on subsidies in non-profit associations in which one of their relatives was involved… There are many other cases. In February 2013, Philippe Mousnier, a close friend of the right-wing MP Jean-Louis Masson, filed a complaint against François Grosdidier after he found him involved in a conflict of interest in the use of his deputy’s funds. During his time as a deputy, he used it to finance the Valeur Écologie association, which he heads. He paid €100,000 to this association in 2009 and €60,000 in 2011. In February 2019, François Grosdidier was charged with “illegal representation of interests” and “misappropriation of public funds…”. In short, an “honest man”.
Is the Metz mega-mosque subsidised by the city council?
In Metz, people fear that the mayor will orchestrate and vote for a municipal subsidy for the construction of the mega-mosque. The mayor’s enthusiasm for this giant mosque, which will be a “mockery” of the people of Strasbourg, is so obvious.
Mayor Grosdidier wants to speed up the project. “I have called for a mobilisation in the autumn to make a success of the construction of the great mosque, which is absolutely necessary so that worship can take place in dignified and safe conditions,” the mayor of Metz wrote on Facebook, reporting on his visit for Eid.
Once built, the great mosque in Metz will rival the mega-mosque in Strasbourg (the largest mosque in Europe, bigger than the one in Geneva (3)…), in a region governed by the Concordat.
Unlike other regions of France, Moselle is sinking into increasing public Islamism.
Metz and Strasbourg rival for the largest mosque in Europe
It is like a nightmare. After the race to build supermarkets and hypermarkets, now comes the marathon of hyper-construction. On March 22, the Strasbourg City Council voted to approve “in principle a grant” of 2.5 million euros for the construction of the Eyyub Sultan Mosque with a total budget of 32 million euros.
Imams in mosques are now trained at our expense
The two mega-mosques in Metz and Strasbourg are inextricably linked to the state-paid training of imams at the University of Strasbourg. The idea was launched in 2015 by Unistra president Alain Beretz and strengthened in its implementation by his successor as president, the theologian and Catholic priest Michel Deneken. We can see how the principle of secularism is respected in this huge Islamic-left university that is Unistra.
The University of Strasbourg has created two Master’s programmes in Islamology, Law and Management. But that was not all. The same Islamogauchists opened a degree in History and Civilisation of Muslim Worlds. This degree, which aims to study Muslim reality, will enrol one hundred students at the beginning of the 2021 academic year, “selected from among 200 candidates, many of whom are foreigners”, according to an administrative official at the university.
The current president of the Strasbourg universities, the Catholic priest Michel Deneken, added: “The University of Strasbourg had to be part of it”, regretting certain hesitations. He praised “the dean of the history faculty who makes this teaching possible as part of a university approach. The teachers are not necessarily Muslims.
With shouts of “Deneken, monkey trader”, President Michel Deneken (in the middle of the photo) was recently antagonised by many students at the University of Strasbourg.
The first academic recruited to train imams is Anne Sylvie Boisliveau, a researcher and specialist in the Qur’an. “There is no teaching without research. This raises the question of the relationship with the founding texts and their interpretation in relation to their time. The Qur’an is neither below nor above the Bible,” adds Michel Deney with full enthusiasm. Michel Deneken, a Catholic priest in the diocese of Toul and professor of dogmatics at Unistra, emphatically underlines this.
In addition, Al-Azhar University in Cairo has initiated academic cooperation with the Catholic Institute in Paris and the University of Strasbourg. Unistra President Michel Deneken: “If the state decided that the intellectual training of imams, as with priests and pastors, should take place at the university, that would be a service to Islam. As you can see.”
All these official commitments in favour of Islam come at a price and are paid for by the taxpayers of the Moselle region, the Alsatian departments and with a share of the taxes of all French people. Even those who live outside the Concordat area.
Francis GRUZELLE
Journalist and writer
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