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The administrative court of Grenoble obliged the mayor toAlbertville (Savoie) to authorize the construction of a private primary school on the initiative of the
Islamic Confederation Millî Görüs (CIMG), close to Turkey, we learned on Friday.
The decision made Tuesday cancels the refusal of the building permit, which had been filed in 2019 by the association to establish a school of 400 students in this city of about 20,000 inhabitants.
Two months to issue the building permit
The court ruled that the reasons given by the town hall, relating in particular to the parking spaces, were not admissible. He gives the latter two months to issue the building permit.
In a published column friday by Le Figaro, the mayor (without label) Frédéric Burnier-Framboret, deeply regrets this decision, which he thinks to appeal. He says he is “helpless” to “counter the establishment of associations or companies led by foreign powers, which promote a crystallization of identity in the heart of our territories”. Resorting to the Town Planning Code was “the only legislative means” at his disposal to oppose the construction of this school, he told AFP.
The association also behind the mosque project in Strasbourg
With the project to accommodate 400 students, the establishment would be “likely to endanger the classes, even the schools” of Albertville, which now accommodate around 1,200. A smaller-scale project “could have been discussed” but the city councilor said he had received “an inadmissibility” from the CIMG.
This association is also at the origin of a mosque project in Strasbourg, for which the ecological municipality voted on March 22 the “principle” of a subsidy of more than 2.5 million euros, attracting very strong criticism of the government. Interior Minister Gérald Darmanin denounced “a federation which refused to sign the charter of principles of Islam in France and which defends a political Islam”.
Thursday, during the examination of the bill on separatism, the Senate voted a government amendment which provides for obliging the communities to inform the prefect, three months in advance, before any subsidy for the construction of a place of worship. The planned school in Albertville “can only encourage communitarianism,” said the mayor. He specifies that it would be installed next to a mosque managed by the local branch of CIMG, with which he claims to have “good relations”.
The mayor’s words are “as biased as they are inaccurate,” retorted Fatih Sarikir, president of CIMG France, in a press release sent on Friday evening. The school he wishes to build “will be neither” Islamist “nor” Turkish “” but “a confessional school outside the contract as there are already so many in France, most of them Catholics or Jews”, he adds. hoping that his establishment will be able to contract after the legal deadline of five years. The manager brushes aside the argument of school competition, except for wanting to “close all private schools”, and denounces, behind the “pretext” of parking to block his project, “the hypocrisy” of Frédéric Burnier-Framboret and “his obsession with our origins ”.