{"id":2164,"date":"2026-04-03T06:55:05","date_gmt":"2026-04-03T06:55:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/2164\/"},"modified":"2026-04-03T06:55:05","modified_gmt":"2026-04-03T06:55:05","slug":"paris-police-ban-annual-french-muslim-event-over-major-terrorist-risk-from-far-right-groups","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/2164\/","title":{"rendered":"Paris police ban annual French Muslim event over \u2018major terrorist risk\u2019 from far-right groups"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Paris<\/a> police on Thursday banned an annual gathering of French Muslims<\/a> north of the capital, citing a “major terrorist risk” that it might be targeted.<\/p>\n

The Annual Gathering of the Muslims of France had been due to take place at Bourget, just north of Paris, from Friday until Monday.<\/p>\n

The order banning it issued by the Paris police said there was a risk that “small far-right groups” might try to disrupt the event.<\/p>\n

But the police order said the event was “taking place in a particularly tense international and national context”.<\/p>\n

The gathering was “exposed to a significant terrorist risk targeting the Muslim community”, it added.<\/p>\n

The order cited a foiled bid last weekend to bomb the Bank of America building in Paris\u00a0\u2013 an event, it said, that underlined the seriousness of the threat inside France.<\/p>\n

Read moreFrance foils Paris bomb plot outside US bank, opens anti-terror probe<\/a><\/p>\n

French prosecutors said the attempted attack might have been linked to a pro-Iran<\/a> group, as security fears flare over the war in the Middle East<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Police also cited a polarised political debate during municipal elections last month.<\/p>\n

Read moreFrench far right wins towns, loses in cities as mayoral vote kicks off race to succeed Macron<\/a><\/p>\n

The decision comes as the French interior ministry prepares a draft law designed to tackle the danger of radical Islamist elements infiltrating Muslim groups.<\/p>\n

The bill is due to be presented to President Emmanuel Macron<\/a>‘s cabinet at the end of April, the ministry said, confirming a report by Le Parisien newspaper.<\/p>\n

(FRANCE 24 with AFP)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Paris police on Thursday banned an annual gathering of French Muslims north of the capital, citing a…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2165,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[312,1859,5,2111,30],"class_list":["post-2164","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-paris","tag-counter-terrorism","tag-far-right","tag-france","tag-muslims","tag-paris"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2164","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2164"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2164\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2165"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2164"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2164"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2164"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}