New imams have been appointed and commitments to respect republican values have been obtained.
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Gérald Darmanin had accused her of attacking the “republican model and France”. Five months after its closure for radical sermons, the Beauvais mosque (Oise) has just obtained its reopening in court.
Eviction of the implicated imam, deletion of sermons on social networks, modification of the operation of the association… The judge in chambers of the administrative court of Amiens considered that the changes that have occurred since the closure justified the reopening of the mosque. Otherwise it would constitute a “serious and manifestly illegal attack on freedom of worship”.
The lawyer for the association managing the mosque, Me Sefen Guez Guez, hailed a “appeasement decision”, but lamented that the reopening had not been authorized earlier. Measures have been taken “from February, but we had real resistance from the prefecture against us, perhaps because of a political or electoral objective”he pointed.
In a press release, the prefect of Oise said “rejoiced” that “the period of closing of the mosque” allowed to “ensure respect” by the association “of the laws and values of the Republic” and “to reduce the risk of reiteration of abuses”. Prefecture “will be attentive to the sustainability of the commitments made”she assures.
The mosque, which usually hosts some 400 faithful, had been closed for six months at the end of December by the prefect of Oise because of the sermons deemed radical, held between April and December 2021, by Imam Eddy Lecocq, a young convert trained in Saudi Arabia. A decision then validated by the administrative court. These sermons “value jihad”encourage the faithful to “identity withdrawal” and call “to hate”in particular Jews, Christians or homosexuals, specified the prefectural decree.