The city corridor of Meyzieu, within the Rhôneintroduced Thursday that it wished to ban by municipal decree the Islamic truthful “Aux Sources”, scheduled for June 13 and 14, 2026, we discovered on Friday. The choice is linked to the introduced arrival of Vincent Guyot, generally known as Vincent Souleymane, introduced by the authorities as near the Muslim Brotherhood. Mayor Issam Benzeghiba (numerous middle) despatched a letter to the prefect of Rhône Etienne Guyot with the intention to legally put together this ban.
On this doc printed on Fb, the elected official describes Vincent Guyot as “a preacher identified for his positions of a anti-Semiticin addition to for feedback hostile to actions defending the rights of girls and other people LGBT “. He provides that the particular person involved “frequently makes statements which could possibly be interpreted as requires hatred” and mentions a danger of “critical disturbances to public order”.
The 2025 version licensed by administrative justice
The presence of the preacher had already led the municipality to ban the 2025 version of the present, earlier than this determination was overturned by administrative justice. Issam Benzeghiba now considers it “important that our respective companies can work to legally safe this determination and assure, this 12 months, its solidity”, whereas a brand new attraction by the organizers stays potential.
Our file on the Muslim Brotherhood
The mayor additionally remembers that in June 2023, a convention by Vincent Guyot at Lyon had been banned collectively by the environmentalist city corridor and the Rhône prefecture. For his half, the Crif Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes referred to as on the authorities on Thursday to stop the preacher’s public interventions, saying that “the prevention of assaults on public order requires explicit vigilance from the State” within the present context.
