Imam Hassan Ikiussen, whose expulsion by Gerald Darmanin was approved by the Council of State on Tuesday August 30, is considered to be on the run and is listed on the wanted persons file, a source close to him told AFP. the file.
After the decision of the Council of State, the police went to the house of the preacher of Moroccan nationality in the afternoon, near Valenciennes (in the North) in Lourches, to arrest him for deportation to Morocco. But they have not found him, according to a source familiar with the matter, raising the possibility that he is in Belgium.
The State Council rejects the Paris Administrative Court
The Council of State on Tuesday gave the green light to the deportation of Moroccan imam Hassan Ikiussen, whom Gérald Darmanin has made a symbol of the anti-government struggle in recent weeks.separatist speeches“. Revoking the administrative court of Paris, which on August 5 had urgently suspended the deportation of this imam close to the “Muslim Brotherhood”, the highest administrative court of France considered that this decision to deport him to Morocco was not “serious and manifestly unlawful interference with (his) private and family life“.
Hassan Ikiussen, 58, was born in France and lives there regularly, but decided not to opt for French citizenship as an adult. He has five children and 15 grandchildren, all French. In a tweet published immediately before the announcement of the State Council, the Minister of Internal Affairs called this decision “a great victory for the republic“.
“He will be expelled from the national territory. As soon as he is arrested, he will be placed in administrative isolation“At the beginning of the evening, Gerald Darmanin said from the porch of his office, noting that: “Since 2017, 786 radicalized foreigners have been deported“and”74 of them” were ” duringin the last few months“.
Source: Le Figaro
