Interior Minister Gérald Darmanin requested the withdrawal of the residence permit of imam Mahjoub Mahjoubi. A preliminary investigation was also opened for “apology of terrorism” The controversy broke out when the imam published on social networks the video of a sermon where, facing the camera, he describes the “tricolor flag’ as a “satanic flag” which has “no value with Allah’.
In total, the fifty-year-old is the subject of three reports. One of them dates from November 2023.