New twist in the thorny issue of the construction of a Muslim school in Albertville. The mayor of the Savoyard commune indicates that on Wednesday he withdrew the building permit that he had been forced to grant by judicial decision for the construction of this establishment. As revealed
The Dauphiné Libéré, the decision of Frédéric Burnier Framboret comes after the graceful appeal filed on June 18 by the prefect of Savoy against the court injunction.
“The judgment was subject to appeal and the State formulated it, as it has the right, for security reasons” related to the location of the project, specifies the elected various right, at the head of the city since last year. “The case is ongoing. It is in the hands of our council ”, comments for his part Fatih Sarikir, the president of the Islamic Confederation Millî Görüs (CIMG), which carries the project.
The proximity of the CIMG to the Turkish government of Erdogan in question
The association, which deplores a political gesture, has two months to contest the decision of the councilor. On April 6, the administrative court of Grenoble ordered the mayor of Albertville to validate the building permit filed in 2019 by this association which wishes to set up a school of 400 students in this city of about 20,000 inhabitants.
The court considered that the reasons given by the municipality, relating in particular to parking spaces, were not admissible. Opposed to this primary school project for the proximity of the CIMG with the Turkish government of Recep Tayyip Erdogan, the city appealed against the decision to the administrative court of appeal of Lyon, supported by the prefect of Savoy who judges this “separatist” project.
“A denominational school, like Catholics or Jews”
In a forum, Frédéric Burnier Framboret considered himself “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”. For his part, Engin Seller, the local representative of Millî Görüs, defended himself from wanting to build anything other than a “denominational school, as Catholics or Jews”.
On April 12, the government had passed a last-minute amendment to the bill on separatism to allow the prefect to oppose the opening of schools supported by a foreign state “hostile” to the Republic. Five days later, a demonstration called for by the National Rally had gathered in Albertville a hundred people opposed to the construction of the school.