Prefect of the French Department, Nizhny Raine spoke with tough criticism and accusations against the mayor of Strasbourg Zhanna Barsegyan for allocated to the Turkish organization municipal funds to build a mosque. This is reported by France Bleu edition.
According to the report, Strasbourg City Hall agreed to the construction of the largest mosque in Europe. Moreover, the mayor of Jeanne Barsegyan agreed to allocate 2.5 million euros from the city budget.
Learning about this, French Interior Minister Gerald Darmannen said that Strasbourg mayor should not have taken such a decision, and the mosque project called foreign intervention in French territory.
After that, Barsegegian appealed to the letter to French President Emmanuel Makron, asking her to defend her from such accusations. In a letter, she wrote that the decision was made on the basis of the principle of religion equality in the republic. Construction of the mosque, she added, it began in 2017, with its predecessor of Jean-Luke Marx, and the republican authorities never had no questions about the construction of a mosque and its legality.
on behalf of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of France, the prefecture will turn to the administrative court to find out whether the construction of the mosque of the republic is consistent.
The Ministry of Internal Affairs of France argues that the Organization refused to sign a new Charter of the French Council on Muslim Religion, in which the equality of men and women is approved and the use of Islam for political purposes is not allowed.