Authorities in France’s capital Paris are taking legal action against a halal supermarket for not selling alcohol and pork. The local authorities have ordered the business to introduce the other products or face closure reports The Independent.
With the case scheduled to be heard in October this year, the French authorities are looking to have the Good Price supermarket’s lease -which runs until 2019 -revoked. Citing the supermarket has not followed the conditions of its lease which states that it is a general food store.
Members of the local community, Colombes in Paris, have complained of not being served properly since the shop does not store a wide range of products.
“The mayor of Colombes, Nicole Goueta, went there herself and asked the owner to diversify the range of products by adding alcohol and non-halal meats,” the mayor’s chief of staff, Jerome Besnard, told The Telegraph.
He further added that the authorities want the society to mix and not have Muslim only places or places where there are no Muslims. Adding that the town would have reacted the same if it was a kosher supermarket.
The Supermarkets’ manager Soulemane Yalcin said that the lease states ‘general food store and related activities’ but it is up to the trader to interpret the related activities.
“It’s business,” Soulemane Yalcin, the manager of Good Price, told Le Parisien. “I look around me and I target what I see.
