But the CMIG is one of three Muslim confederations in France that have refused to sign a new anti-extremism charter championed by Macron. “We believe that this municipal authority should not be financing foreign meddling on our soil,” he added. Macron warned against Turkish meddling in France’s presidential elections next year, in an interview broadcast Tuesday. Relations between France and Turkey have been battered by disputes over the conflicts on Libya, Syria and Nagorno-Karabakh, and Turkish accusations of Islamophobia in France. Darmanin said he had asked the government’s top regional representative to file an administrative court complaint to stop the subsidy.

Source: Libya Today March 24, 2021 14:48 UTC