Anyone practicing the religion should be ‘immediately escorted to the border’
A French mayor, who claimed that Islam will be banned from the country by 2027, is facing expulsion from France’s main opposition conservative party after rightists rejected his calls as ‘unacceptable’.
“I have called for the expulsion procedure to be started for these absurd statements that in no way reflect the values and program of the Union for a Popular Movement (UMP),” the party’s vice-president Nathalie Kosciusko-Morizet told L’Agence France Presse (AFP) on Friday, May 15.
The controversy erupted after Robert Chardon, mayor of the southern town of Venelles, tweeted multiple times on Thursday, May 14, that “the religion of Islam will be banned in France on Oct. 18, 2027.”
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