The procedure is so rare that it merits reporting. Laurent Touvet, prefect of Moselle, issued a decree on Thursday, November 9, to ban, between November 10 and 12, a paid conference by Youssef Hindi, a French essayist, on the messianic origins of Zionism. The thirty-year-old, known for his anti-Semitism and his controversial positions on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, was to hold a quasi-clandestine conference scheduled, a priori, for Saturday November 11, in Thionville. It was through X (formerly Twitter) that he invited people to register on an encrypted messaging service to find out the location.
“Necessary, appropriate and proportionate measures”
“It is up to the authority, vested with police power, to take the necessary, appropriate and proportionate measures to prevent a breach of public order,” stipulates the prefectural decree, referring to “the high risk that comments constituting ‘a criminal offense or one likely to undermine the dignity of the human person is pronounced’. “The announcement of this conference aroused a certain amount of concern within the Jewish community and among elected officials in the sector,” underlines Philippe Deschamps, sub-prefect of Thionville. “This type of banning order is not used lightly. They acknowledged receipt of this ban without comment. » Neither referred to the administrative court of Strasbourg!
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