Moroccan imam Hassan Iquioussen will not return to France. The Paris administrative court rendered its decision this Monday evening. It was seized after the expulsion of the imam in January 2023 following anti-Semitic remarks and hatred towards women and non-Muslims. But the court did not cancel his expulsion.
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The administrative judge considers that Hassan Iquioussen committed repeated acts of provocation to hatred or violence against Jews, non-Muslims and women, despite his ties to France. Comments of particular gravity, underlines the administrative court.
But for Imam Iquioussen’s lawyer, Lucie Simon, these comments do not justify an expulsion. It is him Verbatim reproached for having said that women needed their dose of beautiful words to be fulfilled or that the man was the locomotive of the family. These are retrograde, regrettable speeches, but which do not seem to us to constitute a serious threat to the security of the State, and in any event, to justify the expulsion of a man who was born in France and who has every his family “, she believes.
Appeal this decision
The court adds that the imam’s children and wife, who live in France, could join him in Morocco and that this expulsion therefore does not excessively infringe on respect for his private life. The imam will appeal. “ Mr. Iquioussen will obviously appeal this decision. He is a little taken aback, taken aback to see that comments from 10 to 20 years ago are repeated, that his apologies are not even mentioned in the decision », Continues Me Lucie Simon, Imam Iquioussen’s lawyer.
Hassan Iquioussen, preacher from the north of France and S file, had fled to Belgium when the Minister of the Interior Gérald Darmanin had requested his expulsion in 2022, before being found and deported to Morocco in 2023.
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