Following the visit of students of the Malraux college at the Turkish mosque of Pontarlier on April 9 and 10, MEP Marion Maréchal seized the public prosecutor and the prefect and wrote to the rectorate, she announced on the social network X. On April 11, Damien Rieu, far-right activist followed by nearly 300,000 subscribers, denounced on X According to him of “Islamic entrism at school”.
Questioned by The East Republicanthe rectorate and the Imam Tarik Akkoyun challenged any proselytism, explaining that the visit, organized for 20 years, was part of visits to places of worship and that of a church was also planned. “She was prepared, supervised. We are outside the cult, but in the context of a global teaching, ”said the rectorate.
Mosque closure request
Not convinced, the deputy identity-liberties, former member of reconquest, seized justice and the prefect of the Doubs, to whom she asked to close the mosque. “The participation imposed on this outing raises several legal and security issues,” said Marion Maréchal, according to whom “the mosque is placed under the authority of the Ditib, the Foreign Religious Affairs Service controlled by the Turkey Ministry of Religious Affairs, the Diyanet, and President Erdogan, whose proximity to the Islamists of the Muslim Brotherhood is proven”. According to the elected official, “the association which manages the mosque organized, in March 2024, a military reconstruction where young children were disguised as Ottoman soldiers brandishing dummy weapons and Turkish flags”.
“We do not receive the ministry’s order. We are independent. My function, as an imam, is integration under the French flag while retaining Turkish cultural and cultural values, while respecting the values of integration and secularism of the Republic, “defended himself in our Tarik Akkoyun columns.
