(Radio France) France’s top administrative court has confirmed the six-month closure of the Grand Mosque of Pantin after it published a video denouncing history teacher Samuel Paty for showing cartoons of the Prophet Mohammed, which [led] to his decapitation in a street near his school.
The judgement from the Council of State confirms an earlier court ruling, after the request by the Interior Ministry.
The Muslim Federation of Pantin, which manages the Pantin mosque, appealed to France’s highest administrative court in October after it was ordered to close for six months.
The organisation’s president M’hammed Henniche on Monday pleaded for the sanction to be shortened.
