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With the French government struggling to find a way to fight radical Islam within its borders, there is now a new controversy in Strasbourg. A mega-mosque is under construction and the city, controlled by the Greens, has decided to contribute 2.5 million euros toward its construction. That has upset the minister of interior, among others, who point to the connections between the builders of the mosque and the forces of Turkish president Recep Tayyip Erdogan. Now the city government is filing a defamation lawsuit.
The below article from Le Figaro is translated by Fousesquawk.
Strasbourg mosque: EELV is lodging a complaint of defamation against Darmanin and Schiappa
A standoff pits ministers and the Green mayor of Strasbourg after the vote Monday by the municipal council on the "principle of a subsidy" of 2.5 million euros destined to the construction site of the Eyyub Sultan Mosque.
By Le Figaro with Agence France Presse
Posted yestreday at 16:30, ipdated 18:38
Caption below photo: The Grand Mosque of Strasbourg under construction
Europe Ecology Greens announced Saturday its intention to bring a complaint for defamation against ministers Marlene Schiappa and Gerald Darmanin, who are opposed to the Green (party) mayor of Strasbourg as to a possible subsidy for the construction of a mosque.
"In accord with the executive bureau and Jeanne Barseghian, mayor of Strasbourg, EELV will lodge a complaint for defamation against Marlene Schiappa and Gerald Darmanin," declared Julieb Bayou, national secretary of EELV, in a statement to the federal council, of which Agence France Presse has obtained a copy. "We have taken the decision yesterday (Friday) evening and the complaint will be lodged in the course of next week," stated the head of the Greens.
"Gerald Darmanin, the 'minister of school lunches' has accused the majority EELV, led by Jeanne Barseghian, of financing foreign interference on French soil. Its delegated minister, for his part, stated that EELV made a pact with 'radical Islam'. The issue: The adoption Monday of a subsidy for the construction of a mosque," declared the national secretary.
For Jean Bayou, "We have a government and its minister of Interior and Religions who lie. "He never alerted the mayor of the danger that the association carrying out the project represents. For us, it is clear: If this association is dangerous, let him close it. That the ministers use and abuse the means of public power to smear their political adversaries for purely electoral reasons and/or to create a diversion and try to divert attention from their failures and their shortcomings, we cannot accept that," noted Julien Bayou. "That the ministers, rather than do their duties, prefer to play 'community manager' or
gun-holder for Macron is unacceptable!" he added.
A stand-off pits Gerald Darmanin and the Green mayor of Strasbourg, after the vote Monday by the municipal council on "the principle of a subsidy" of 2.5 million euros for the construction of the Eyyub Sultan Mosque, being carried out by a Turkish association, the Islamic Confederation, Milli
Görüs (CIMG). "We feel that this collective (the Town Hall of Strasbourg) should not have financed a foreign interference on our soil," the minister of Interior said Wednesday.
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