Under pressure from the right to be seen to be tackling radical Islam, Cazeneuve announced on Monday that French authorities had shut down since December around 20 mosques and prayer halls considered to be preaching radical Islam. “The relationship between the French state and Islam has always been complicated and something should have done 50 years ago,” she told The Local. After a spate of recent terror attacks the French Prime Minister Manuel Valls and his Interior Minister Bernard Cazeneuve have been talking tough. The PM offered a less provocative tone however when he insisted that: “Islam does have its place in the Republic”. He also said that since 2012, 80 people had been expelled from France, and dozens more expulsions were underway, without giving further details.

Source: The Local August 01, 2016 15:56 UTC