The Council of State validated, Friday, September 24, the dissolution of the Collective against Islamophobia in France (CCIF) and that of the humanitarian association BarakaCity, decreed at the end of 2020 by the government in the continuation of the assassination of Samuel Paty by an Islamist extremist, October 16, 2020. The highest administrative court thus ruled in favor of the Minister of the Interior, Gerald Darmanin, who, shortly after the beheading of the teacher, had accused of “Islamist propaganda” these two associations.
He had obtained their dissolution on the grounds that they fell under Article L. 212-1 of the Internal Security Code. This makes it possible to dissolve groups which “Cause discrimination, hatred or violence against a person or a group of persons because of their origin (…) or of their belonging or not belonging, true or supposed, to an ethnic group, a nation, a so-called race or a specific religion, or propagate ideas or theories tending to justify or encourage this discrimination, this hatred or this violence “ or those “Who indulge (…) to acts with a view to provoking acts of terrorism ”.
If the measure targeting BarakaCity had raised little criticism, the decree dissolving the CCIF (the association, which provided legal assistance to people who considered themselves victims of anti-Muslim acts or discrimination, was dissolved on October 29). had been contested by certain jurists. In its decision, the Council of State largely allows the assessment of the Ministry of the Interior. He asserts that the CCIF “For several years has been making unqualified remarks aimed at accrediting the idea that the French public authorities would lead, particularly in the context of the fight against terrorism, a fight against the Muslim religion and its practitioners and that, more generally, France would be a country hostile to Muslims ”.
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The administrative judge indicates that the CCIF maintained “Close links with supporters of a radical Islamism inviting to evade certain laws of the Republic”. He believes that one of the association’s former leaders, Marwan Muhammad, “Publicly made statements tending to relativize, or even legitimize, the attacks against the Jewish Museum in Brussels in 2014 and against the newspaper Charlie hebdo in 2015, and promoted the idea of a supremacy of the Muslim community ”. He criticizes the collective for having made “Promotion of theses” a former treasurer of the jihadist association Anâ-Muslim “Which has repeatedly legitimized the use of terrorism”.
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