As reported by the newspaper Le Figaro on Wednesday July 28, Frédéric Burnier Framboret (DVD), the mayor of Albertville, announced that he was withdrawing the building permit he had reluctantly granted for the construction of a Muslim school in his Savoyard municipality. This project, which is supported by the Islamic organisation Millî Görüs and whose plan has been underway since 2019, was rejected by the mayor. But on April 6, the Grenoble Administrative Court ruled that the mayor must confirm the building permit for the facility, which will house 400 students.
The mayor of the town of 20,000 inhabitants accuses Millî Görüs of being close to the Turkish government. Frédéric Burnier Framboret had declared in a newspaper article that he was “unable” to oppose the establishment of associations or societies controlled by foreign powers that promote a tendency to crystallise a particular identity in the heart of our territories. According to Le Figaro, the people’s representative explained that the municipality had appealed the decision to the Lyon administrative court and could count on the prefect of Savoie, who described the project as “separatist”. Engin Seller, the local representative of the Millî Görüs, vowed not to set up a “confessional school, like the Catholics or the Jews”.