Circulate, there is nothing to do. This is in short the defense of the rector of the great mosque of Paris Chems-Eddine Hafiz this Friday morning on BFMTV, four days after the daily L'Opin . “I am not a commercial enterprise, I play a religious role,” he said, saying that I was “paid for a service” and defending himself from having set up a system of “tax”.
According to opinion, the Great Mosque of Paris signed an agreement with Algeria, making Halal certification compulsory – by the Great Mosque of Paris – many exported foodstuffs from the European Union (EU) to Algeria . “Without this label, no European industrialist can hope to pass Algerian customs,” writes the opinion on this subject. Still according to this daily life, it goes from two cents per kg of ten -cent powder of milk per kg of cakes, cookies, chocolates, confectionery …
These certificates would be issued by a commercial company, hosted in the premises of the Great Mosque in Paris, but governed by the Commercial Code. Chems-Eddine Hafiz is on the head. “It is the association that owns, but you need a natural person to represent it. I do not receive money, everything goes to the management of Muslim worship, ”he had justified himself with the opinion.
Several million euros in turnover
During the greeting ceremony at the Great Mosque of Paris this Thursday evening, Chems-Eddine Hafiz had assured for five years, “freely and in full light”, the activities of the institution, in particular for halal certification “that we do , with seriousness and experience, since 1939 ”. “The set of dividends is used to finance the exercise of Muslim worship,” added Chems-Eddine Hafiz.
-According to the figures given on BFMTV this Friday and by opinion, this system reported some “two million euros in turnover” in 2023. “And we had to reach the five million euros”. Added Chems-Eddine Hafiz confirming that this certification did not concern “only meat”. “The Grand Mosque in Paris began this certification when it was created, we can certify halal products,” also advanced Chems-Eddine Hafiz.
However, according to a milk industrialist questioned by opinion, this Hala certification “is paid”. “There are no real controls – which, in passing, can put us in difficulty with our religious customers, in the event of a dispute. In the sector, we quickly realized that all these new formalities was to “piss” French companies, which is really a bonus for Algiers “, he tackled by denouncing a system” strictly financial ».
These revelations intervene in the middle of a climate of tensions between Paris and Algiers, linked to the maintenance of the Franco-Algerian writer Boualem Sansal and the arrests in France of seven Algerian influencers. “Today as if by chance because of the particular context with Algeria, everything is problematic. I am extremely serene, ”observed this Friday on this subject Chems-Eddine Hafiz.
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