Hassan Iquioussen was expelled from Bagnols-sur-Cèze in January 2023. The judge refused to allow him to testify by videoconference.

The Minister of the Interior Gérald Darmanin will not justify this before the judge. “It takes confidence not to come and defend this decision,” remarks Mr. Lucie Simon, lawyer for the imam. An exercise, certainly “not very woke” but very legal, of freedom of expression.