French Government Dissolves Anti-Islamophobia Group Over Hate Speech Allegations

"The association ’Coordination against Racism and Islamophobia’ has been dissolved in the Council of Ministers, in accordance with the instructions of the President of the Republic," Interior Minister Gérald Darmanin announced on his Twitter account. According to him, this association "called for hatred, violence and discrimination". This structure was "at the origin of hate speech and anti-Semitic remarks," government spokesman Gabriel Attal, who presented the summary of the Council’s work, said.

"Considering that through its publications on social networks, the association aims to provoke violent actions against certain categories of people, either directly or indirectly through the dissemination of publications intended to arouse in return hatred, violence and discrimination against persons on the grounds of their origin, their belonging to an ethnic group, a race or a religion the reactions that its messages arouse and that it does not delete or moderate [...], there is reason to pronounce the dissolution of the association..." can be read in the dissolution decree.