France’s Prime Minister said on Friday he would consider a temporary ban on foreign financing of mosques, urging a “new model” for relations with Islam after a spate of jehadi attacks. Manuel Valls, under fire for perceived security lapses around the attacks, also admitted a “failure” in the fact that one of the jihadists who stormed a church and killed a priest on Tuesday had been released with an electronic tag pending trial.
In an interview with French daily le Monde, Valls said he was “open to the idea that — for a period yet to be determined — there should be no financing from abroad for the construction of mosques.”
Valls also called for imams to be “trained in France, not elsewhere.”