His predecessor Place Beauvau and his model in politics, Nicolas Sarkozy, liked to repeat that
“being lucky is part of talent”
.
With the escape of Imam Iquioussen, Gérald Darmanin is out of luck.
It only took a few hours for the political trophy to turn into humiliation.
As soon as the opinion of the Council of State was known, Tuesday evening, the Minister of the Interior was delighted with a
“great victory for the Republic”
.
By a declaration with serious accents in the courtyard of Place Beauvau, he also thought to value a personal victory, that of a minister with firm intentions and effective action.
Basically, his victory was real.
At the beginning of August, the administrative court had rejected the grounds for expulsion of the imam invoked by the number three of the government.
A month later, the Council of State agreed with him.
The case of Imam Iquioussen is isolated.
This is what made it so symbolic and so fragile at the same time.
Darmanin's founding ministerial act is...
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