France’s anti-terrorism prosecutor has indicted five Islamist activists, including Boubaker El-Hadj Amor, the imam of the Grand Mosque in Poitiers, for funneling funds to Hamas through Humani’Terre and Soutien Humani’Terre—two charities accused of links to the Muslim Brotherhood.
On February 20, 2026, the National Anti-Terrorism Prosecutor’s Office (PNAT) placed the Islamists under judicial supervision, formally charging them with financing a terrorist enterprise, organized breach of trust, and money laundering in connection with a terrorist organization.
In 34 years, there have been many investigations, which is natural because we carry out projects in sensitive countries, which have never had anything to complain about; and then suddenly, just like that, we discover that we are supposedly a financier of Hamas, which is complete nonsense, it has nothing to do with humanitarian reality.
Authorities earlier raided the homes and offices of Humani’Terre’s executives, seizing nearly €40 million. Anti-terrorism police found over €5 million in cash at the charity’s head office and its branches in Paris, Lille, Lyon, and Marseille, and €35 million in bank accounts and bank checks.
The Agency for the Management and Recovery of Seized and Confiscated Assets (AGRASC) also seized two buildings in Paris and La Courneuve (Seine-Saint-Denis).
“This is a major case. It targets Humani’Terre, formerly the Comité de Bienfaisance et de Secours aux Palestiniens (CBSP), as well as Boubaker El-Hadj Amor, imam of the Poitiers Grand Mosque and former president of the association, and a high-profile member of Union des Organisations Islamiques en France (UOIF)—the French branch of the Brotherhood,” Professor Florence Bergeaud-Blackler, a renowned expert on the Muslim Brotherhood, told Focus on Western Islamism (FWI).
In 2003, the U.S. Treasury Department designated the CBSP as a terrorist entity, describing it as a “primary fundraiser for Hamas in France.” Since October 2007, the CBSP has been a “partner organization” of the UOIF, the Jerusalem Center for Security and Foreign Affairs confirmed.
“The amounts of nearly €40 million seized give the case significant weight,” Bergeaud-Blackler, author of The Brotherhood and its Networks: The Investigation, stressed.
Aligned With Leftists
Despite Humani’Terre’s suspicious background, the organization has at least one friend in the French Parliament. Bergeaud-Blackler recently reported on X that Thomas Portes, a parliamentarian representing La France Insoumise (LFI)—a far-left party accused of colluding with the Muslim Brotherhood—has a friendly relationship with one of the activists associated with Humani’Terre, Abu Amir Mutasen Eleiwa.
On October 5, 2023, two days before the Hamas massacre of Israeli civilians, Portes—who has not responded to a journalistic query from Focus on Western Islamism (FWI)—traveled to Cairo to meet Abu Amir Mutasen Eleiwa, a senior figure at Humani’Terre, the Franc-Tireur weekly reported. Portes posted photographs of the meeting on X, arm in arm with Eleiwa.
In September 2025, Portes traveled to Lebanon, where he met with officials of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, designated as a terrorist group by the European Union, the United States, Canada, and Israel, and directly implicated in the October 7 attacks, according to a report from lawmakers in France’s National Assembly. NGO Monitor has documented instances in which PFLP bragged of participating in the October 7 massacre.
The French National Assembly dossier, published in December 2025 and covered by FWI, noted that the case of “Thomas Portes deserves particular attention, as he does not hesitate to display his close ties to terrorist organizations and individuals accused of advocating terrorism.”
Controversial Imam’s Grand Mosque Benefited from Qatari Funding
Amor, the Tunisian-born imam and former president of Humani’Terre, serves as a senior official of Musulmans de France, a controversial Muslim umbrella organization associated with Muslim Brotherhood ideology. While Amor’s assets have been frozen since June 2024, he has denied all allegations of funding terrorism.
This is a major case.
“In 34 years, there have been many investigations, which is natural because we carry out projects in sensitive countries, which have never had anything to complain about; and then suddenly, just like that, we discover that we are supposedly a financier of Hamas, which is complete nonsense, it has nothing to do with humanitarian reality,” Amor maintained.
In 2019, the imam, who did not respond to a query from FWI sent to the mosque he leads, was accused of receiving €400,000 from Qatar Charity to building the Poitiers Grand Mosque, which is estimated to have cost around €2 million. Amor was named in the book Qatar Papers: How Doha Finances the Muslim Brotherhood in Europe, by Georges Malbrunot and Christian Chesnot.
In their book, the authors claimed to have “lifted the veil on a case that is extremely worrying for France: the infiltration of the State of Qatar and its control of some French institutions and mosques through money that has flowed in abundance in recent years, particularly in Poitiers.”
Qatar Charity Linked to Terror Operations
In March 2008, the Interagency Intelligence Committee on Terrorism (IICT) of the U.S. National Counterterrorism Center listed Qatar Charity as a “priority III terrorism support entity (TSE)” given its “intent and willingness” to support terrorist organizations that attack the U.S. and its interests.
The Consortium Against Terrorist Finance (CATF) called Qatar Charity a “pioneer and master of terror finance.” A 2003 report from the House Committee on Financial Services Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations notes that Qatar Charity allegedly engaged in financing al-Qaeda and other terrorist organizations.
Amor sparked controversy in 2018 after he appeared on an Arabic TV channel, stating that the real name for the Grand Mosque was Balât al-Shuhadâ (Pavement/Palace of the Martyrs)—the Arabic name of the 732 Battle of Tours or Poitiers, where Frankish forces under Charles Martel defeated the Umayyad Caliphate army led by Abdul Rahman al-Ghafiqi.
“If the charges are confirmed, the matter would go beyond a humanitarian NGO and could indirectly affect a network historically linked to the Muslim Brotherhood, particularly the former Union des organisations islamiques de France, now known as Musulmans de France,” Bergeaud-Blackler told FWI.
“Of course, the presumption of innocence must be upheld. But the institutional stakes are considerable: pressure is mounting on the historic French branch of the Muslim Brotherhood,” she observed, writing on X that “the Muslim Brotherhood in France is struck right in the heart” and re-posting an image of Imam Amor.
Humani’Terre did not respond to a request for comment. On its website, it noted that it had faced “multiple administrative and banking obstacles” and had decided to “suspend all fundraising.”
