Emmanuel Macron summoned a new defense council on the “entrismo” of the Muslim Brotherhood on Monday, July 7, after a first meeting at the end of May, considered unsatisfactory by the head of state, who had asked the government “new proposals.”
This National Defense and Security Council will be held this day at the end of the morning in Elysée, said the president’s entourage to the AFP, confirming information from Figaro, without further details.
A under voltage defense council after the leaks of the first report
According to BFMTV information, the sovereign ministers, including the interior of Bruno Retailleau, are among the participants, as well as the Minister of Education, Elisabeth Borne and that of Sports Marie Barsacq.
The previous Defense Council dedicated to the “entry” of the Muslim Brotherhood had resorted to the cut. Emmanuel Macron had bothered that the report he had ordered on the subject was leaked in the press before this meeting.
“Given the importance of the issue and the severity of the established facts, he asked the Government to formulate new proposals,” said Elíseo.
The report reported a “threat to national cohesion” with the development of Islam “from below” of the Muslim Brotherhood.
A threat considered serious and disputed measures
Born in 1928 in Egypt, the Brotherhood of the Muslim Brotherhood brings the project of a conservative political Islam. The movement has been prohibited in several countries, such as Saudi Arabia, Egypt and more recently Jordan.
In France, there are “in certain districts” of “identified” phenomena, said Emmanuel Macron following the first defense council, while calling not to “think that he is everywhere, because he can make conspiracy or paranoid.”
Opposition criticism
This is precisely what the rebel France reproaches him to the left, whose national coordinator Manuel Bompard still denounced on TF1 a desire to “point out the finger to the French of Muslim confession.”
In practice, the clues presented by Bruno Retailleau to “attack Islamist ecosystems” mainly took the form of an administrative reorganization, with the creation of a role of “leader” in terms of intelligence, or even a “office of the administrative prosecutor” capable, for example, pronounced solutions.
“Administrative measures” rejected as a whole by the leader of the National Rally, Marine Le Pen, who had claimed to go “to search, denounce, eliminate, reduce funds, prohibit publications” of this “totalitarian ideology.”
The decisions taken by this new Defense Council could be subject to a press release, Elysée said.
Source: BFM TV
