(ANSA) - PARIS, AUGUST 05 - The administrative court of Paris today suspended the expulsion to Morocco of the Imamradicale accused of anti-Semitism, Hassan Iquioussen, who had been ordered by the Ministry of the Interior.
According to the court, the expulsion of the imam would cause "disproportionate" damage to "his private and family life".
For his part, the Minister of the Interior, Gérald Darmanin, immediately announced his intention to appeal to the Council of State.
Last week, Darmanin announced the expulsion of Iquioussen, a preacher held close to the Muslim Brotherhood, accusing him of having uttered "openly anti-Semitic, openly xenophobic, openly homophobic, openly anti-women" words.
"It must no longer remain on the national territory", the minister added saying that he was determined to "fight against those who utter and spread anti-Semitic words contrary to equality between men and women".
Yesterday, the European Court of Human Rights had given its clearance to expel the controversial imam in Morocco, but today the Paris court has therefore decided otherwise.
In the ruling, the Parisian judges.
they consider the expulsion "disproportionate", for the 57-year-old imam "born in France, where he has resided since his birth with his wife and five children as well as fifteen French grandchildren".
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