“I will continue to defend myself,” warned imam Mahjoub Mahjoubi after the validation of his expulsion from French territory by the Council of State. The highest administrative court found that certain comments made by the imam of Bagnols-sur-Cèze (Gard) incited discrimination against women and Jews.

“We will go, if necessary, to the European Court of Human Rights, we will go there,” he declared in a determined tone.