The Lille Administrative Court on Wednesday, October 12, ordered the Haut-de-France region to pay more than €500,000 in subsidies to Averroès, a private Muslim high school that was closed in early October due to suspicions by the regional council.
The region, which had paid the amounts due for 2019-20 only after the decision of the State Council, immediately announced that it will appeal to the Court of Cassation.
The region is required by law to pay this grant
The regional majority, led by Xavier Bertrand, head of the LR, rejected in early October the consideration of the payment of the 287,000 euro per year expatriation package for the 2020/21 academic year. Accusing him, in particular, of receiving funds from a Qatari fund in 2014, the regional executive has also yet to pay the 2021-22 expatriate package of the same amount.
This lump sum, paid to all private institutions under contract with the state, is intended to pay non-teaching staff and cover teaching costs. Averroes High School, whose contract has been in place since 2007, has therefore again resorted to legal action, as it has already done before receiving a State Council decision in mid-2021 confirming that the region “is obliged to pay by law“external package.
“Transparency of the Association”.
On Wednesday, the administrative court reached an agreement with him in a summary trial, obliging the region to pay more than 500,000 euros for the external package within 8 days. “The region wants an effort by the association to make its funding more transparent“, his lawyer Me Gautier Nver repeated at the hearing on Tuesday.
Claiming that since 2020 there have been five high school and college inspections, including by National Education, the management stressed that the standoff has weighed on the education of 450 high school students. In a press release issued on Wednesday, the Aude de France region, determined to exhaust all funds, said it was buying again.cassation appeal in the State Council“. He claimed that from August 2021, the anti-separatism law “strengthens control over foreign funding received by any association“.
Javier Bertrand occupied the Ministry of Education in 2020 after the publication of the book.Qatar NewspapersBy Georges Malbruno and Christian Chesno, noting “external fundingof this institution in Lille. The school confirmed that it received a donation from a non-governmental foundation in Qatar, stressing that it was not illegal.
Source: Le Figaro
