After the dissolutions of organizations fighting Islamophobia such as the Collective Against Islamophobia in France (CCIF) and the sidelining of the National Observatory for the Fight Against Islamophobia due to the abandonment of the French Council of the Muslim Faith (CFCM) by the State, the Forum of Islam in France (FORIF) is reflecting on the creation in France of a new organization to fight anti-Muslim acts.
Meeting on Monday, January 31, the Joint Committee (CMP) was unable to reach an agreement on the draft law aimed at democratizing sport in France. Some deputies opposed an amendment added by Senator of Isère Michel Savin (LR), which provided for extending the law on secularism in schools to sports competitions, by banning the wearing of conspicuous religious symbols.
Jordan Bardella, interim president of the National Rally (RN) has been indicted for having described Trappes as an "Islamic republic", after the re-election of its mayor, Ali Rabeh, in October 2021.
The fresco painted on a private wall on Rue Hébert in Grenoble, depicting a woman wearing a striped veil, with a yellow star where "muslim" is written, has provoked strong reactions from local elected officials or the Representative Council of Jewish Institutions of France. As a result, the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes region has decided to withdraw its subsidies from the Street art fest Grenoble Alpes festival.
The French company Alstom will face industrialists, particularly Chinese, in the upcoming tenders to be launched by Morocco for these two new high-speed rail lines.
Naoual Guéry, regional councilor of Normandy, has faced racist and sexist insults, after announcing her sponsorship for Emmanuel Macron in the next presidential election.
A halal grocery store located in Bon-Encontre in Lot-et-Garonne was the victim of a fire during the night of Saturday, January 29 to Sunday, January 30. It would be an arson, as inverted swastikas were painted in white on the facade of the building.
Ophélie Meunier, presenter of "Zone Interdite" and Amine Elbahi, a 25-year-old lawyer from Roubaix, have been the subject of threats following the broadcast of the investigation into radical Islam filmed largely in Roubaix. They have both been placed under police protection.
The Montauban court sentenced an undocumented Moroccan to 12 months in prison with continued detention, and 6 months of probationary suspension for violence committed against his minor stepson and harassment against his wife. The police had arrested him twice in four days after he violated his judicial supervision.
Following the announcement of the reopening of Moroccan airspace, Lille-Lesquin airport has announced the resumption of flights to Morocco from Lille starting February 17.
Algeria accuses Morocco of influencing a French sports newspaper to harm it. At issue, an article published on the Movement for the Self-Determination of Kabylia (MAK) described as a terrorist organization by Algiers.
After the Moroccan Archives, it is the turn of the National Human Rights Council (CNDH) to demand that France return the documents requisitioned from the hero of the Rif War (1921–1926), Mohamed Ben Abdelkrim El Khattabi .