France investigates 76 mosques suspected of ‘separatism’
Investigators will dig into mosques' financing and the background of imams and will be closed down if found to be teaching extremist ideology
03 December 2020 - 18:33
Paris — France on Thursday stared investigating dozens of mosques suspected of fomenting “separatism” to combat the rising threat of religious extremism, interior minister Gérald Darmanin said.
The government has launched what it calls an unprecedented action against “separatism” after several Islamist attacks in France in 2020, including the beheading of a teacher who had shown his class caricatures of the Prophet Mohammad...
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