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France bans three Islamic organisations

Government spokesman said the groups, which ran a mosque shut down after the Paris terrorist attacks, were 'clearly taking action to incite jihad.'

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France has banned three Islamic associations that ran a mosque in the Paris area that was shut down following November’s jihadi attacks on the capital, interior minister Bernard Cazeneuve said Wednesday, reports The Japan Times.

The Mosque at Lagny-sur-Marne was closed in early December as part of a huge security crackdown after 130 people were killed in a coordinated series of shootings and suicide bombings in Paris on November 13th. The Islamic State group claimed the attacks.

“There is no place in the French Republic for groups which incite, and which call for terrorism or call for hate,” Cazeneuve said as he announced the decision on Wednesday.

The government’s spokesman Stephane Le Foll said after a cabinet meeting: “The fight against preachers of hate will be total.”

He said the three banned groups “were clearly taking action to incite jihad.”

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