From January 1 to March 19, 38 illegal foreigners were expelled from French territory. This is the assessment drawn up by the Ministry of the Interior according to our colleagues from Le Figaro. All were registered in the file for processing reports for the prevention of radicalization of a terrorist nature (FSPRT).
On X (formerly Twitter), Interior Minister Gérald Darmanin welcomed this action. “Record expulsion of radicalized foreigners on file S: thank you to the services of the Ministry of the Interior for responding to the firm instructions requested, in particular thanks to the new means of the immigration law. »
In October 2023, a few days after the assassination of Dominique Bernard, professor in Arras, Gérald Darmanin indicated in a press briefing that 20,120 people were registered with the FSPRT, including 4,263 foreigners in a regular or irregular situation. 5,100 are actively monitored. The government also specified that since 2015, 922 people registered with the FSPRT have been expelled.
Varied profiles
According to Le Figaro, these 38 people expelled are from the Maghreb. The newspaper nevertheless specifies that some were sent back to Bangladesh, North Macedonia or Poland. Another was sent back to Italy after admitting “his proximity to the Taliban by claiming to have served them by planting bombs, helping to carry out suicide attacks and guarding their base”.
The daily newspaper profiles these radicalized people. A third would live in the Ile-de-France region, while the others would have settled in Haute-Garonne, in Bouches-du-Rhône, in the North, or even in the Rhône. The oldest was 75 years old and the youngest 19 years old, according to the ministry's assessment. What are they accused of? Terrorist criminal association, apology for terrorism, common law acts (violence, death threats or even use of narcotics).
Created in March 2015, after the Charlie Hebdo and Hyper Kosher attacks, this file exclusively lists religiously radicalized individuals. Fueled by field reports and reporting calls, it contained 15,000 to 16,000 individuals in July 2017. The vast majority of people who appear in this file are monitored by the Central Territorial Intelligence Service (SCRT), a comparable service. to the former General information.