France has done a lot of trouble in recent days to protect its secular nature. Earlier this week, the French Minister of Europe, Benjamin Haddad, called for more strict checks on the way in which the EU allocates subsidies as a result of allegations that Brussels financed campaigns that did not respect the secular values of the country and allegedly entities related to Islamist movements.
Macron has instructed his government to propose measures to combat the influence of the Muslim Brotherhood, who should be discussed next month, the president’s office announced on Tuesday.
The first disclosed version
A first version of the report was disclosed to the conservative daily Le Figaro and to the right -wing magazine current values, an act according to which a member of the high -ranking government, which obtained anonymity to speak freely, attributed to the Minister of the Interior Bruno Retailleau.
Retailleau, who had access to the full report because of his role, told journalists earlier this week that the document will demonstrate how “Islamist infiltration is a threat”.
The presidential hopes jumped on the flight to present their own discussion points before the conclusions were officially made public. The president of the far -right national rally, Jordan Bardella, told France Inter on Wednesday morning that the Muslim Brotherhood posed “one of the most existential challenges that our country is confronted”.
And Gabriel Attal – who was briefly Prime Minister last year and now heads the centrist pro -Macron Renaissance party – replied by floating a ban on Muslim scarves for those under 15.
On the left, the chief of the far left, Jean-Luc Mélenchon, accused the government of having attached Islamophobia and of “giving credibility” to points of extreme right.
“It’s enough! You will destroy the country,” he wrote on X.
