Question 23770 — sects and secret societies

Summary

Mr. Jean-Luc Mélenchon alerts the Prime Minister on the future of the interministerial mission of vigilance and fight against sectarian abuses (Miviludes). Miviludes was created in 2002. It is made up of 13 professional members from education, health, law, finance and the police. Its role is to collect reports and testimonies on sectarian abuses in order to participate in the fight against sects and to inform the society about this reality. This institution serves as a model throughout the world in the fight against sects. The reality of this scourge largely justifies the existence of this organization. Sects claim 500,000 victims per year in France. In 2018, Miviludes received 3,000 reports, that is to say 700 more than the previous year. Most recently, Miviludes played a role in the discovery and neutralization of illegal clinical trials conducted on 350 Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s patients. However, the mission must undergo a reorganization which amounts to a disappearance for the year 2020. It is expected that it will lose a quarter of its personnel. Furthermore, it must merge with the interministerial committee for the prevention of delinquency and radicalization. This committee is attached to the Ministry of the Interior, unlike Miviludes, attached to the Prime minister. This merger will lead to the abandonment of specific missions carried out by Miviludes in favor of the sole fight against Islamist radicalization, a priority of the Ministry of the Interior. Furthermore, by attaching the Miviludes to the Minister of Religion, the Government is sending the signal of a trivialization of sects presented as legitimate religions. He asks what guarantees can be provided by the Government on the continuity of the fight against sectarian excesses given the disappearance of Miviludes.

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