Mahjoub Mahjoubi is accused of having “conveyed a literal, retrograde, intolerant and violent conception of Islam”.
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Imam Mahjoub Mahjoubi, accused of“calls to hatred”, is Thursday evening on the plane towards Tunis (Tunisia), franceinfo learned from a source close to the matter.
On his X account, Gérald Darmanin confirmed Thursday evening that the imam “radical has just been expelled from the national territory, less than 12 hours after his arrest”. As a reminder, the imam was “arrested at his home” in Bagnols-sur-Cèze (Gard) earlier Thursday with a view to being deported. Still on X, Gérald Darmanin confirmed that “Instructions had been given to issue a ministerial expulsion order against this radical ‘imam’ with unacceptable comments”.
Mahjoub Mahjoubi is accused of having “conveyed a literal, retrograde, intolerant and violent conception of Islam”, during his sermons on February 2, 9 and 16, according to the ministerial expulsion order that franceinfo was able to consult. His words are “likely to encourage behavior contrary to the values of the Republic, discrimination against women, withdrawal into identity, tensions with the Jewish community and jihadist radicalization”, indicates the Ministry of the Interior.
“I am going to contest this procedure through a procedure called summary expulsion before the Paris administrative court”reacted the imam’s lawyer, who specifies that he has two days to do so.
