Epilogue for the soap opera Iquioussen?
Moroccan imam Hassan Iquioussen was expelled Friday to Morocco by Belgium, where he was arrested on September 30 after his expulsion from France for "comments inciting hatred and discrimination", announced his French lawyer.
This preacher from the north of France, born in France, whose interior minister Gérald Darmanin had announced the expulsion at the end of July, was expelled to Casablanca after the issue Thursday of a pass by the Moroccan authorities , said Me Lucie Simon, his lawyer.
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In a decision handed down on December 16, the Belgian authorities had decided to bring back the imam of Lourches Hassan Iquioussen, accused of holding “for years a hate speech against the values of France” at the Moroccan border, “ so as not to prolong (his) detention unreasonably”.
Belgium therefore succeeded (unlike France) in reaching an agreement with the Moroccan authorities to allow this expulsion.
The regrets expressed by the former preacher on certain past remarks were therefore not enough to convince Belgium to leave him on its territory.