France to expel French-born imam to Morocco over ‘hate speech’

Inside minister hails high administrative courtroom’s inexperienced gentle for Hassan Iquioussen’s expulsion as ‘an excellent victory for the republic’.

A view shows the Conseil d'Etat, France's highest administrative court, in Paris
The Council of State is France's highest administrative courtroom situated in Paris [File: Sarah Meyssonnier/Reuters]

France’s high administrative courtroom has given the inexperienced gentle for the expulsion to Morocco of an imam accused of “hate speech”, in keeping with Inside Minister Gerald Darmanin.

Hassan Iquioussen “will probably be expelled from the nationwide territory” in “an excellent victory for the republic,” Darmanin wrote on Twitter, citing Tuesday’s ruling by the Council of State.

The case landed earlier than the very best courtroom after Paris judges blocked the imam’s deportation, which the inside ministry ordered in late July over “particularly virulent anti-Semitic speech” and sermons calling for girls’s “submission” to males.

Iquioussen, 58, reaches tens of hundreds of subscribers by way of YouTube and Fb accounts from his residence in northern France.

He was born in France however holds Moroccan citizenship.

His legal professionals efficiently utilized to the Paris courtroom for a block on the order, saying it will create “disproportionate hurt” to his “non-public and household life”.

‘No severe risk to public order’

An inside ministry lawyer final week advised the Council of State Iquioussen “has for years unfold insidious concepts which are nothing lower than incitement to hatred, to discrimination and to violence”.

However the preacher’s lawyer retorted that among the remarks together with anti-Semitic or misogynistic speech dated again greater than 20 years, declaring that he had by no means been prosecuted for his public statements.

“Sure, Mr Iquioussen is a conservative. He has made retrograde statements on ladies’s place in society,” Lucie Simon stated. “However that doesn't represent a severe risk to public order.”

The inside ministry consultant retorted that the imam’s phrases “create fertile floor for separatism and even terrorism,” insisting that he “stays an anti-Semite”.

Darmanin had warned that he would attempt to change the regulation if judges discovered Iquioussen couldn't be expelled.

France's Interior Minister Gerald Darmanin leaves the presidential Elysee Palace
France’s Inside Minister Gerald Darmanin leaves the presidential Elysee Palace [File: Ludovic Marin/AFP]

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