Expelled in February to Tunisia for having held anti-France sermons, imam Mahjoub Mahjoubi considers unjustified the decision of the Council of State which confirmed, Friday March 29, the validity of his expulsion.
“You haven’t heard the last of Mahjoub Mahjoubi.” The tone is set. The imam expelled in Tunisia for holding anti-France sermons reacted on BFMTV to the decision rendered by the Council of State, Friday March 29, which confirmed his expulsion from French territory. “We are not finished, there are other jurisdictions, we will not give up, we will go to the end,” assured Mahjoub Mahjoubi, who had filed the application for interim relief after his expulsion in February.
After the decision rendered by the country’s highest administrative court, the Minister of the Interior, Gérald Darmanin, welcomed an “important victory against radical Islam” over X. The former imam, however, affirmed that the minister had “rejoiced too quickly”. “We will go, if necessary, to the European Court of Human Rights,” he said, believing that the charges were too light to legitimize the expulsion. “The only thing I’m being criticized for today is supposedly my degrading comments about the place of women in society.”
Important victory against radical Islam: the Council of State has just confirmed on appeal the expulsion of radical imam Mahjoubi. https://t.co/8xiOgWrz7O
— Gérald DARMANIN (@GDarmanin) March 29, 2024
Hope of a return to France
His lawyer Paul Mathonnet announces that there will be “recourses soon to have the merits decided”. His client, who would have “always defended the values of the Republic”, does not intend, for the moment, to repatriate the rest of his family, still in France, because he hopes to be able to return. In the event of his return to the Metropolis, Mahjoub Mahjoubi assures that he will no longer occupy “the position of imam or preacher”. In the meantime, his relatives would be under “enormous pressure” from the French authorities.