The Minister of the Interior announced on Wednesday the dissolution of the Collective Against Islamophobia in France, in the sights of the government since the assassination of Samuel Paty.
Less than a week after the Collective Against Islamophobia in France (CCIF) announced its self-dissolution, Gérald Darmanin in turn announced this Wednesday, December 2 the dissolution of the collective in the Council of Ministers. The CCIF had already redeployed its activities and its headquarters abroad shortly before.
“We cannot accept a facade dissolution and we must therefore put an end to this action,” said government spokesman Gabriel Attal about the self-dissolution of the CCIF. “His propaganda and his action could continue”, he added, lambasting an association which “led astray a noble and necessary fight” and “lent itself to all kinds of excesses and anti-republican ideologies”.
Since October, two structures have already been dissolved in the Council of Ministers for similar reasons. On the one hand BarakaCity, accused of “propagating ideas advocating radical Islam”, and on the other hand the collective “Cheik Yassine” whose President Abdelhakim Sefrioui was indicted in the Conflans attack for “complicity in ‘terrorist attack”. The Council of State has already confirmed the dissolution of BarakaCity and the closure of the Pantin mosque, on the grounds that the latter had relayed a video denouncing Samuel Paty’s course on freedom of expression.
