According to a report by RFI, French Muslims had sought legal action against a right-wing parliament member and a satire paper for their recent remarks against them.
A Muslim legal defense group sought action against "Charlie Hebdo" in court over a front page, of which its headline read "The Koran is shit." On Monday, a court in Strasbourg has set the hearing into the alleged blasphemy made by "Charlie Hebdo" on April 7 last year. RFI said that the offices of the paper were firebombed after it has published Prophet Mohammed in cartoons that were deemed offensive by French Muslims.
Despite the fact that blasphemy is not a criminal offense in France apart from Alsace-Moselle, the three departments annexed by Germany in the 1800s and the early 1900s and currently follows the old German legal code, the trial is reportedly a test case as it will touch on the ban on insulting religious communities, RFI said. The current law only covers certain communities, namely Catholicism, three forms of Protestantism and Judaism.
On April 7, a Nimes court will be holding a hearing on charges against former decentralization minister Claude Goasguen, the French online paper said. Goasguen allegedly offended the honor and dignity of the Muslim community due to his speech at an event, said acting lawyer Khadija Aoudia for the CFCM, one of France's two major Muslim associations.
RFI said Goasguen was quoted at a gala organized by KKL, a pro-Israel group, who said that the Holocaust's history will no longer be taught in schools in France because people will reportedly get scared of young Muslims' reactions who had been allegedly drugged in mosques.
RFI said anti-Semitic slogans were recited on a latest "Day of Rage" protest, which brought together far-right groups and supporters of comedian Dieudonné, of which some were young Muslims, and Catholic fundamentalists.
