French minister refutes court ruling, says Muslim school a ‘bastion of Islamist influence’

French minister refutes court ruling, says Muslim school a ‘bastion of Islamist influence’

French interior minister Bruno Retailleau has challenged the decision to reinstate public funding for the private Averroès Muslim secondary school in Lille…

The association managing the high school reacted in a statement, deploring that the minister crowds "under the rule of law" and conveys " rumors intended to break up French society by targeting Muslims". "The facts are serious, they are significant of the Islamist enterrism that I want to co-

The Minister of the Interior regrets the decision of the administrative justice, which restored Wednesday the contract of association of the Muslim high school Averroès. He wants the state to appeal the high school

The Lille Muslim high school Averroès, whose contract of association with the state was restored Wednesday by the administrative justice, "is a bastion of Islamist enterrism", declared Thursday the Minister of the Interior...

On Thursday 24 April 2025, the Minister of the Interior described the Averroès Muslim High School as "the bastion of Islamist enterrism". The contract between the state and the Lille private establishment had been re-established the previous day by the Lille administrative court. "I wish the state to appeal," said Bruno Retailleau.

The Lille TA found that the requirement of serious breaches of the law was not fulfilled and that the procedure followed was flawed.The prefect's accusations were numerous and serious: "The prefect had justified this decision by several serious shortcomings which he accused the institution of having committed, in particular deficiencies in the documentation accessible to pupils, the annoyance of the Muslim ethics course to the values of the Repu…