Keeping away foreigners who profess an ideology hostile to democratic values and violating the laws of the Republic… the mission entrusted by Place Beauvau to the prefectures seems to be one of the simplest and most consensual.
But you have to go to Lille, capital of one of the most important prefectures in France, to understand the stakes and the difficulty of the exercise symbolized by the Hassan Iquioussen affair.
On paper, the profile of this northern preacher corresponded perfectly to the title of a text described as "
major
" by an immigration specialist, namely the circular signed on September 29, 2020 by the Minister of the Interior, Gérald Darmanin, and “relating to the removal of foreigners who have committed serious offenses or who represent a serious threat to public order”.
An Islamist identified and followed as such for years by the intelligence services, Iquioussen was, according to a senior official specializing in these issues, "
one of the figures in...
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