(AFP) France is moving to shut six mosques and break up several associations suspected of producing radical Islamic propaganda, Interior Minister [Gerald] Darmanin said on Tuesday.
A third of the 89 places of worship “suspected of being radical” and flagged by the intelligence services had been checked since November 2020, he told Le Figaro newspaper.
Of those, action to shut down six — in five different departments across France — had been launched, he said.
The authorities would also request the dissolution of the Islamist publishers Nawa and the Black African Defence League (LDNA).
Nawa, based in the southern French town of Ariege, “incites the extermination of the Jews and legitimises the stoning of homosexuals,” Darmanin said.
