Gérald Darmanin launches the Forum de l’islam de France

A new institution to build islam of France. The forum of islam de France brings together 80 volunteers from various departments. Operation of chaplaincies, recruitment of imams, security of places of worship… There are many projects. At the end of the meeting, Gérald Darmanin, the Minister of the Interior, called on Muslims to write a new page in the organization of their worship. “Today, the State has allowed a gathering on extremely concrete subjects. Now people know each other. It is up to them to organize themselves and choose which interlocutor gives them the most legitimacy.“, did he declare.

The objective is also to turn the page of the CFCM, the French Council of Muslim Worship, which was the main interlocutor of the public authorities since its foundation under the impulse of Nicolas Sarkozy in 2003. But it had been undermined for several years by quarrels internal and differences of vision.