The court confirmed that the mosque, located in the northern part of Paris, was closed for six months
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France’s highest administrative court has rejected appeals against the dissolution of a Muslim NGO and a government order to close a mosque for six months following the killing of a teacher. According to the report, French President Emmanuel Macron had vowed to stop radical activities in France after the assassination of teacher Samuel Paty on October 16. The statement said that the state council had justified the dissolution of the BarakaCity NGO by order of the government, citing a statement by the group’s leader as “inciting discrimination, violence and hatred”. The government ordered the dissolution of BarakaCity in late October, accusing it of being linked to a “radical Islamist movement” and “justifying acts of terrorism.” He said the group had published violent and discriminatory statements by its founder and leader Idriss Sihamedi on its own social media accounts. However, the group, which insists it has a strong humanitarian mission to help millions of people around the world, denied the allegations and appealed the decision. In a separate ruling, the court confirmed that a mosque in the northern part of Paris, Pantin, had been closed for six months. The local Muslim community had appealed against the government’s order to close the mosque.
