The procedure promises to be long, complex and above all uncertain.
Sunday February 18, Interior Minister Gérald Darmanin requested the withdrawal of the residence permit of imam Mahjoub Mahjoubi, a Tunisian national living in France since 1986, with a view to his expulsion.
A preliminary investigation was also opened for
“apology of terrorism”
.
The controversy broke out when the imam published on social networks the video of a sermon where, facing the camera, he describes the
“tricolor flag”
as a
“satanic flag”
which has
“no value with Allah”
.
Mahjoub Mahjoubi today speaks of a “slip of the tongue”.
In total, the fifty-year-old is the subject of three reports.
One of them dates from November 2023, after comments made in February of the same year on the place of women or on the Jewish people whom he designated as an
“enemy”
.
As such, he was known to the “specialized services” who analyzed “
several tens of minutes of sermons
” in the disputed passages, the prefect said on Tuesday…
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