Live | Controversy: the “conference of imams” moved from Avignon to Cabannes
While just yesterday, the elected opposition members of the National Rally on the municipal council of Avignon reiterated their request for cancellation from a conference led by three Islamic preachers scheduled for tomorrow in Montfavet, the event was finally moved 10 km further south, to Cabannes, in the Bouches-du-Rhône.
The organizing association, D’Clic, from Valence (Drôme), revealed it in the evening.
Nader Abou Anas, Mehdi Bouzid, very followed on social networks, and the Marseille imam of Bleuets Ismail, declared as “belonging to the Salafist movement” by Mohammed Moussaoui, the Vaucluse president of the Union of French mosques, will therefore intervene tomorrow at the Salle l’Etoile. A private place, for a private event, “Open to all”.
After having canceled it in November on the grounds that the poster showed the logo of an association dissolved the day after the assassination of Samuel Paty by an Islamist terrorist, the prefect of Vaucluse, alerted at the time by the deputies RN of the department, had not objected a second time to the holding of this meeting, invoking freedom of expression.
This morning on Twitter, Marseille senator Stéphane Ravier urged the regional prefect to have this conference canceled.