Question 14928 — religions and cults

Summary

Ms. Marine Hamelet draws the attention of the Minister of the Interior to the follow-up given to the report entitled “Muslim Brothers and political Islamism in France”, published in May 2025 under the authority of his ministry and more particularly to the situation of the Secours Islamique France (“SIF”) association. This report, the result of an evaluation carried out in the first half of 2024 based on a review of academic literature, hearings with French and international academics, field trips and discussions with the administrations involved, draws up a particularly documented inventory of the establishment and strategies of the Muslim Brotherhood movement in France. The SIF is mentioned several times. The report indicates in particular that this association was "historically the emanation of Islamic Relief, an NGO with a social and humanitarian", presented by the report as being part of the Muslim Brotherhood movement and that it was "for a long time led by figures from the Brotherhood movement before gradually emancipating themselves from it". The report also indicates that the SIF has “organized satellite structures around its social activity in France, including an endowment fund and three real estate companies” and that it “receives funding from the State, the AFD and the EU”. These findings, emanating from services placed under the authority of the Ministry of the Interior, have been made public and commit the State. However, following a hearing of Mr. Christophe Lecourtier before the Foreign Affairs Committee on April 8, 2026, the SIF wrote a press release and personally contacted the MP, by letter dated April 17, 2026. The organization contests the veracity of the elements concerning him and requests a written rectification from the ministry which, according to his assertions, has still not been delivered to him. Given the importance of public, national and European funding from which the SIF benefits, as well as the sensitive theaters of operations in which it operates, the coherence of State action requires that the findings of the report be accepted or corrected, without maintaining ambiguity. As a result, she asks if it confirms, without reservation, all the findings relating to Secours Islamique France appearing in the May 2025 report, in particular those relating to its Brotherhood origins, the persistence, until a recent period, of figures from the movement in its leadership, as well as the organization of satellite structures (endowment funds and civil real estate companies). If so, she asks him what concrete measures have been taken or are being considered to draw the administrative, financial and operational consequences of these findings; whether an independent audit of the financial flows of the association and its satellite structures has been carried out and whether interministerial consultation has been organized with the Ministry of Europe and Foreign Affairs, the Ministry responsible for the economy and the AFD in order to ensure consistency between State action. HAS in the absence of measures, she asks him on what grounds he considers that the findings published in May 2025 do not justify, at this stage, practical consequences and, more generally, what have been, to date, the concrete follow-up given to the report “Muslim Brothers and political Islamism in France”.

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