(Jerusalem Post) The Bleuets mosque in Marseille has been given a closure notice from the prefect of Bouches-du-Rhône, seemingly due to its ties to the Muslim Brotherhood.
While the Muslim Brotherhood connection was not explicitly stated, both the imam, Smain Bendjilali, and the Bleuets mosque itself were described as “very influential in the neighborhood” in a recent French government report on the Muslim Brotherhood.
Bendjilali was described as being “of a rather Salafist leaning but using the codes of the Muslim Brotherhood, and is a master of social media.”
“Since 2017 and until August 2024, all the remarks made in this mosque, and in particular by Imam Bendjilali, lead me to consider that the continued operation of this mosque presents risks and continues to allow the propagation of remarks and theories inciting violence and discrimination,” police prefect Pierre-Édouard Colliex told Agence France-Presse.
