The Minister of the Interior had asked to cancel an administrative order suspending the request for the expulsion of this preacher, accused of taking “a speech with anti -Semitic content”.
Le Monde
The Council of State, the highest French administrative jurisdiction, gave its green light to the expulsion to Morocco of the preacher Hassan Iquioussen, after a request from the Minister of the Interior Gérald Darmanin. The latter had asked to cancel an order from the Paris administrative court suspending the request for expulsion of the imam.
The Ministry of the Interior published on July 28 an expulsion decree targeting the imam due to “a proselyte speech enamelled with words encouraging hatred and discrimination and carrying a vision of the ‘Islam contrary to the values of the Republic “.
The ministry reproached the imam “a particularly virulent anti -Semitic content discourse” and his preaching advocating the “submission” of women “for the benefit of men”. The expulsion decree also evoked the encouragement “to separatism” and the “contempt for certain republican values such as the secularism and the democratic functioning of French society”.
Seized by the lawyers of Mr. Iquioussen, the Paris administrative court had suspended this request for expulsion in early August by arguing that the expulsion of the imam, born in France 58 years ago but of Moroccan nationality, would carry “a disproportionate attack” to his “private and family life”.