The highest administrative court is looking into the fate of Imam Hassan Iquioussen. The judge in chambers of the Council of State examines Friday a request from Gérald Darmanin, who intends to have an order of the administrative court of Paris suspended his request for expulsion of the preacher. The Council of State will meet at 11 a.m. His decision is expected within 48 hours.
The Minister of the Interior announced on July 28 the expulsion of a preacher from the North, Hassan Iquioussen, reputed to be close to the Muslim Brotherhood, for calls for hatred and violence against the Jewish community in particular. In a ministerial decree that AFP was able to consult, the Ministry of the Interior justified this expulsion by the fact that the imam, born in France 58 years ago but of Moroccan nationality, disseminated “to a large public since the beginning of the 2000s (…) a proselytizing discourse interspersed with remarks inciting hatred and discrimination and carrying a vision of Islam contrary to the values of the Republic”.
The imam has been on S for eighteen months
The ministry reproached the imam in particular for “a particularly virulent anti-Semitic speech” and for advocating the “submission” of women “for the benefit of men”. The expulsion order also denounced the encouragement “to separatism” and the “contempt for certain republican values such as secularism and the democratic functioning of French society”.
Gérald Darmanin also indicated at the beginning of August that Mr. Iquioussen had been filed S (for state security) by the DGSI “for eighteen months”. “It is up to justice to decide on the removal” of Mr. Iquioussen had reacted his lawyer Me Lucie Simon after the announcement of the expulsion order. “The right to effective remedy is guaranteed by the Constitution, the expulsion of Mr. Iquioussen cannot take place before an impartial judge pronounces on its legality”, insisted the lawyer, considering that his client “does not represent no serious threat to public order”.
The lawyer had filed an appeal against the expulsion order before the Administrative Court (TA) of Paris. “Your court should not be used as judicial guarantee for the effects of political announcement by the government. It would create a terrible precedent, a cut in the rule of law, ”the lawyer pleaded on August 4 before the TA. The next day, this court decided to suspend the expulsion to Morocco of Mr. Iquioussen, considering that it would cause a “disproportionate attack” on the “private and family life” of the imam.