The Ministry of the Interior has already made it known that it intended to appeal the decision of the Melun court. The Ministry of Justice is ready to change the law.
New setback in the Doualemn case for Bruno Retailleau. This Thursday, February 6, 2025, the Melun administrative court had canceled the obligation to leave the French territory (OQTF) of the Algerian influencer, revealed Europe 1 of which Bfmtv confirmed the information. Direct consequence: the 59 -year -old man will be able to get out of the administrative detention center. The administrative court “enjoins the prefectural authority to re -examine the situation of the person concerned within three months and to issue him a provisional stay of stay during the time of this re -examination,” said the press release consulted by BFMTV, which specifies that the Ministry of the Interior would appeal.
This decision occurred a week after French justice has already suspended the Emergency Expulsion from Doualemn to Algeria decided by Bruno Retailleau. In question, according to the judge in summary proceedings of the Paris administrative court, the fact that the emergency procedure drawn by the Minister of the Interior was not justified. However, recalls the world, justice had not completely contradicted Bruno Retailleau either. The Paris Administrative Court had indeed recognized that Doualemn represented a “serious threat to public order justifying an expulsion”. He also refused to suspend the withdrawal of his residence permit acted by the Minister of the Interior.
“A sanction for the precipitation of the administrative authorities”
For the influencer’s lawyer, Me Jean-Baptiste Mousset, who confided in the microphone of Franceinfo Friday, February 7, this new stay represents “a sanction for the precipitation of the administrative authorities”. According to him, it is a “judicial cleaner rendered by the administrative courts, which said to the Minister of the Interior, you were too quickly, you did not use the right procedure”, and to the prefect of the ‘Hérault, “you have not made a decision that is validly founded”.
Interior and justice ready to answer
The entourage of the Minister of the Interior said to the Radio France agency that an appeal would be filed in order to continue the expulsion procedure. Thursday evening, guest of LciBruno Retailleau assured that there were “points on which we must change the law”, in particular the “legal rules which do not protect French society”. A declaration quickly supported by his predecessor, today Minister of Justice, Gérald Darmanin: “If the law must be changed once again for things to be extremely clear and that the Republic and the State do not show ‘Impotence, but expensive from the national territory any irregular foreign person.
In early January, this Algerian national had drawn the attention of the authorities after having published videos on the Tiktok social network for its 168,000 subscribers. One of them had particularly caught attention. According to the authorities, the murder of an opponent of the Algerian regime was discussed. Justice evoked rather an incentive to “catch” this man and inflict on him a “severe correction”. Expelled in an emergency towards Algeria, the influencer had finally been returned the same evening to France, which had provoked a diplomatic crisis between the two countries whose relations were already tense.
11:07 – Doualemn will be tried on February 24
The 59 -year -old influencer will finally be tried before the Montpellier Criminal Court on February 24, for “provocation to commit an offense”, after the cancellation of the obligation to leave French territory (OQTF), which was ordered to the Hérault prefecture.
11:00 – Retailleau and Darmanin ready to change the law?
After this going back, the Minister of the Interior and that of justice do not intend to be done. Bruno Retailleau should appeal the decision in order to continue the expulsion procedure and says he is ready to “change the law”, during an interview with LCI, Thursday, February 6: “Today, we have a lot of legal rules who do not protect French society. ” A declaration supported by Gérald Darmanin: “If it is necessary to modify the law again so that things are extremely clear and that the Republic and the State do not show helplessness, but expel from the national territory any irregular foreign person .
10:45 – The influencer’s lawyer welcomes judgment
For Me Jean-Baptiste Mousset, influencer’s lawyer, the decision of the Melun administrative court to grant him a new stay is “a sanction for the precipitation of the administrative authorities”, he explained to the microphone of Franceinfo. According to him, it is a “judicial cleaner rendered by the administrative courts, which tells the Minister of the Interior, you were too quickly, you did not use the right procedure”, and which must the prefect From Hérault, “you have not made a decision that is validly founded”.