The Northern Prefect is stubborn. On Tuesday, October 10, he issued an expulsion order to Algeria against Sana, a returnee from Syria and an Algerian national in an irregular situation. At the end of September, the courts ruled against sending this 24-year-old young woman, born in France to Algerian parents, to this country where she has never lived, taken to Syria when she was a minor. But the prefect does not budge: according to him, Sana presents a danger for France.
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The prefect of the North came in person to tell the expulsion commission of the Lille court to what extent, in his eyes, Sana, 24, represents a threat. He had highlighted the fact that she belongs to a large family of Roubaisian jihadists, when she said she was the victim of a tyrannical and radicalized mother who took her and married her by force in Syria, at 15 years old.
Repatriated last January with her two daughters, Sana (who does not have French nationality because her mother refused to ask her for it when she was a teenager, making her today an Algerian national in an irregular situation) was detained for a long time. heard by the intelligence services and was never indicted, emphasized his lawyer.
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Towards an appeal before the administrative court
But for the prefect, the young woman has not cut off from the jihadist environment, she even recently married religiously, online, a German fundamentalist.
Of the ” allegations » which are based on nothing, brushed aside the expulsion commission in its opinion delivered at the end of September, a commission which also underlines that no reprehensible act can be accused of him since his return.
But this opinion was only advisory and the prefect of the North chose not to follow it. Sana’s lawyer will file an appeal before the administrative court.