France’s highest administrative court is expected to make a decision early this week on the Interior Ministry’s request to overturn a decision by the Paris administrative court to suspend the expulsion of preacher Hassan Iquioussen to Morocco.
While the Council of State must rule on the expulsion of Imam Hassan Iquioussen, Olivier Véran, government spokesman, considered on Sunday that they would be sending a “very bad signal” if he’s not deported.
The expulsion request was made by Interior Minister Gérald Darmanin last July. Morocco agreed to take in the Imam. The expulsion order followed ” a proselyte speech enameled with remarks inciting to hatred and discrimination and carrying a vision of Islam contrary to the values of the Republic.”
The Ministry considered the speech to be “particularly virulent and anti-Semitic” and his preachings are encouraging “to separatism” and advocating the “submission” of women “for the benefit of men”.
“I have no place to judge and comment, let alone anticipate, a court decision,” acknowledge the spokesman, adding that “the French would not understand that an imam who makes radicalized statements of extreme darkness, with a capacity to cause harm, and who hates the Republic so much, retains his place in the Republic.”
“Let it be the Republic itself, through the voice of the Council of State, which says so…”, he continued, saying he was “for the expulsion” and “absolutely without concession with the radicalized who attacked the Republic”.
The 58 years-old Moroccan-born Imam and a father of 5, considered the decision of his expulsion as a “disproportionate attack” on his “private and family life”, according to AFP.
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