Gerald Darmanin intends to activate the deportation of foreigners who violate the laws of the republic. Wanting to be intractable, the interior minister announced on Thursday the planned departure of 57-year-old Hassan Ikiusen, a preacher from the north close to the Muslim Brotherhood. Pattern This clergyman is suspected of calling for hatred and violence against the Jewish community in particular. “For years, this preacher has waged hate speech against French values, contradicting our principles of secularism and equality between men and women.“Beauvau host rants on Twitter, vowing to be kicked out of France”.
Without waiting, this Islamic preacher defended himself on his Facebook page.Today I am being accused of making discriminatory or even violent remarks, which I categorically dispute. I trust justice and my counsel to reverse this eviction proceeding. “A report by the expulsion committee, obtained by Le Figaro, shows that Hassan Iquisen, born in France and living near Valenciennes (in the north), won “French citizenship until rejected by majority “. Since then, he has been a Moroccan citizen, holding a residence permit “regularly extended since 1992, valid until June 3, 2022.” “Mr. Equiussen, the document said, claimed that his father had caused him to lose his French citizenship and that he later tried to regain it without success. . »
Presented as apreacher and lecturer “WTO”worked at the former UOIF (Union of Islamic Organizations in France) ” and that “has no other occupation “, they scold the religious fundamentalist.during his conferences, recordings or broadcasts on social networks “have”repeatedly formulated anti-Semitic theses since 2004 and several times in 2014.“. This earned him the wrath of the Representative Council of Jewish Institutions in France (Crief). He is also accused of havingdeveloped conspiracy theories around Islamophobia“and”encouraged the discrimination of women by reducing their status to the role of wife, mother and homemaker, having to fulfill prohibitions and obligations“.
An opinion favoring his removal
On June 22, the departmental commission for the deportation of foreigners gave a positive conclusion on his removal. “The prefecture relies on white records without providing any recent or verifiable remarks, the said conferences were largely off the record, while more than a thousand of its videos appear on the Internet.“, – counters the lawyer of the religious, May Lucy Simon, who suggested to AFP to consider the summary in the administrative court of Paris and send it to the European Court of Human Rights.
For the authorities, the behavior of this imam “especially dangerous when his conferences are highly publicized and he addresses a large audience in a popular and simplistic style, through conferences, but primarily by broadcasting on his Facebook page, which has 42,000 subscribers, and his YouTube channel, which has 169,000 followers, mostly youngsters: live in the suburbs who do not necessarily have the necessary insight and critical spirit“.
According to the latest report, displacement increased by +25% in the first half of 2022, with 9,685 people leaving the area, whether forced or assisted. Bovo notes: “C:This increase is even + 51% in the case of deportations of citizens of third countries (Maghreb, French-speaking Africa), showing the results of the policy implemented for several months.»
Source: Le Figaro
