After the announcement of two requests for building permits for mosques in Ambarès-et-Lagrave (north of Bordeaux), the battle of opinion began among opponents of the projects. In scattered ranks.
A first petition was launched on October 30 by Reconquête Gironde. “We did not put the name of the party forward because we hoped to be able to work with elected Ambaresian opposition officials: in 2020, during the last municipal elections, Reconquête did not yet exist,” explains Virginie Tournay, departmental delegate from Eric Zemmour's party.
There was no union: on November 3, the opposition group United for Ambarès-et-Lagrave (including Éric Poret, National Rally), called for another petition to be signed.
The differences between these texts? The one supported by the local opposition targets the project of the Ibn Sina association and accuses it of “nuisance”, not as a mosque, but as an “establishment open to the public” (traffic, parking, etc.). He proposes to “relocate the project” and gathers nearly 100 signatures this Monday. The text of Reconquest targets both projects and explicitly mentions religion and “a risk of Islamization” of Ambarès-et-Lagrave, which would become “Ambarès-les-deux-Mosquées”. A clear reference to General de Gaulle's Colombey. More than 1,000 people signed it this Monday.
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