TN:

In a meeting with President Emmanuel Macron, Interior Minister Christophe Castaner proposed a clampdown on Zahra Centre France, Anti-Zionist Party, Shia Federation of France and France Marianne TV.

A statement by the Interior Ministry said the groups sympathise with Hamas “via the internet” and “the armed wing of Hezbollah, all listed on the list of terrorist organizations of European Union”.

French police seized weapons and detained 11 people in a raid on Zahra Centre France, one of the largest Shia centres in Europe based near the northern town of Dunkirk, last year.

Anti-Zionist Party, Shia Federation of France and France Marianne TV had bases in the same office as the Zahra Centre France, according to French media.

According to French media, the French government froze the assets of the Shia group in a co-ordinated response.

Assets of Iran’s Ministry of Security and Intelligence, as well as of two Iranian men thought to be members of the country’s intelligence service, were also frozen as part of an anti-terror raid last year.

French media report that Mr Gouasmi supports Lebanese Islamist group Hezbollah and the Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei. He is also the founder of the Anti-Zionist Party.

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