(Anadolu) A French city’s mayor has lashed out against the government’s “Islamist separatism” campaign after a mosque in his jurisdiction was accused and shut down to combat radicalism.
Patrick Floquet, the mayor of the Montmagny town in northern France, “denounced the incompetence of the government” for closure of a mosque which has functioned without any controversies for the past five years. “There was never any question of closing this mosque for that,” he told the French daily Le Parisien.
The mosque is among Muslims’ nine places of worship closed by the Interior Ministry. Gerald Darmanin, the interior minister, on Jan. 15 disclosed they were among the 18 places which were particularly under the watch upon his request, without divulging their names or locations.
