On the run, Imam Hassan Iquioussen is now targeted by a European arrest warrant, issued by an investigating judge in Valenciennes, in the North, according to a source familiar with the matter.
This arrest warrant, revealed by BFMTV, was issued for "evading the execution of a deportation decision", indicated these same sources.
The police have still not found the trace of the preacher while searches took place at his home earlier this week.
According to the prefect of Hauts-de-France, he could have fled to Belgium.
On Tuesday, the Council of State gave the green light to the expulsion of this Moroccan, reputed to be close to the Muslim Brotherhood.
The court had justified the expulsion of the 58-year-old imam by pointing to "anti-Semitic remarks made for several years", during sermons or broadcast conferences, as well as "his speech on the inferiority of women and their submission to the man ".
Or so many “acts of explicit and deliberate provocation to discrimination or hatred”, estimated the court.
A symbol against “separatist discourse”
This summer, the Minister of the Interior, Gérald Darmanin had erected this file as a symbol of the fight of the executive against "separatist speeches".
While the administrative court had suspended the expulsion of the monk in early August, Gérald Darmanin had assured that if the Council of State were to prove him wrong, he could "change the law".
“This gentleman has nothing to do on the soil of the Republic: he himself chose not to be French, he is of a foreign nationality and is radicalized”, he had insisted.
Remarks which had immediately reacted certain elected representatives of the left, seeing in it a "deviation of the rule of law".
