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Morocco ready to welcome the fundamentalist imam from the North targeted by an expulsion order

2022-08-03T12:24:37.080Z


Hassan Iquioussen, reputed to be close to the Muslim Brotherhood, challenged the decision before the administrative court, without this suspending his expulsion.


A “ manu militari

” expulsion

, promises Gérald Darmanin.

The Minister of the Interior announced on Tuesday that Morocco had issued a "

consular pass, 24 hours ago

", to allow the expulsion of Hassan Iquioussen, an imam from the North in particular at the origin of calls hatred against the Jewish community.

The latter has taken legal action to challenge his expulsion, but the appeal is not suspensive.

Read alsoGérald Darmanin announces the expulsion of an Islamic preacher

Responding to a question from RN deputy Sébastien Chenu in the National Assembly, the Minister of the Interior thanked Morocco for issuing this pass, suggesting that the expulsion would be done quickly, as soon as the preacher was arrested.

Recalling that he had signed the order for the expulsion of the Islamic preacher, the minister argued that the latter was registered in the "RPF", the file of wanted persons.

"

We summoned him to the police station and as soon as the police or the gendarmes have arrested Hassan Iquioussen, he will be expelled from the national territory without the possibility of return

", he certifies.

“Pseudo-attacks”

Gérald Darmanin also recalled the reasons for his expulsion, namely having made anti-Semitic remarks and against equality between women and men.

He is also accused of having developed conspiracy theses, describing as "

pseudo-attacks

" the attacks committed in 2015 in France.

The defense of the person concerned was quick to react.

On Twitter, his lawyer, Me Lucie Simon, announced that he had seized the Paris administrative court for interim measures.

"

The right to effective remedy is guaranteed by the Constitution, the expulsion of Hassan Iquioussen cannot take place before an impartial judge rules on its legality

", she maintains.

This appeal does not suspend the expulsion, "

but it is customary to wait for the judge's decision

", she told AFP, without further details on the whereabouts of her client.

The latter has been "

engaged for 40 years against fundamentalism

" and has very few links with Morocco, she said in a previous press release, explaining that he felt above all "

ch'ti

".

At the same time, the criminal lawyer pointed out that the remarks pointed out by the decree were made in 2000 and “

it was only 22 years later

” that the prefect and the Minister of the Interior “

deemed it relevant to be alarmed.

".

Me Lucie Simon accuses Gérald Darmanin of "

political opportunism

" and deplores "

discrimination against Muslims

".

The announcement of the upcoming deportation sparked strong protests.

In a press release, 31 mosques in Hauts-de-France supported the preacher, believing that he was the victim of a “

manifest error of assessment

”.

However, this press release should be taken with caution since some of them are also known to be close to the Muslim Brotherhood or run by imams with family ties to the principal concerned.

A “conservative” and “retrograde” vision

While attributing to him "

a particularly conservative vision of religion

" and conceptions that "

many find retrograde

", the Hauts-de-France section of the Human Rights League for its part pointed out that the reasons "

admitted by the executive go back some twenty years, i.e. a period prior to several renewals of his residence permit

".

Nupes-LFI deputy for the 8th northern district, David Guiraud, also stepped up, accusing Gérald Darmanin in a press release of wanting to “

saturate the airwaves

” with “

a security and repressive discourse

”.

He does not say he is "

not in solidarity with homophobic or anti-Semitic remarks

", but denounces "

doubtful procedures

", which "

must challenge all democrats concerned with preserving our rule of law

".

Hassan Iquioussen is a very active preacher on social networks, especially on his YouTube channel followed by 169,000 people and his Facebook page with 42,000 subscribers.

Born in France, and living near Valenciennes, the 57-year-old man had decided when he came of age, according to Gérald Darmanin, not to choose French nationality.

He claims to have given up French nationality at the age of 16 under the influence of his father, and then tried in vain to recover it.

Source: lefigaro

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