Muslim Nuclear Plant Worker Reinstated After Winning Discrimination Case

Amir, who had been working since May 2018 for an EDF subcontractor, was dismissed in January 2019. After an initial administrative appeal in March 2019, he was informed that he would be registered in the File for the Prevention of Threats to Public Security and that he would be known "for his association with the Salafist movement and for his proximity to individuals practicing radical Islam". But he was successful on Tuesday, December 22, 2020, before the administrative court of Toulouse, which ruled that the ministry "does not refer to any precise and detailed fact that would establish the reality of Amir’s relations with individuals practicing radical Islam", as reported by La Dépêche.

Thus, at the end of the trial, the court ordered the cancellation of the decision and the full reinstatement of the technician in the nuclear power plant within two months. In addition, the State is required to pay him 1500€. "It’s great news, I’ve read the decision at least ten times. I told myself that there was justice!", said the plaintiff to La Dépêche, even though he had been unemployed for two years before this day of victory.

For Sefen Guez Guez, the plaintiff’s lawyer, "this new victory illustrates the excesses of the so-called fight against radicalization where perfectly innocent people see their careers shattered on the basis of simple slanderous denunciations".