The Council of State validated on Wednesday the expulsion of Palestinian activist Mariam Abou Daqqa, overturning a decision of the Paris administrative court which had suspended the expulsion order issued by the Ministry of the Interior against her.
“The Minister of the Interior is justified in maintaining that it was wrong for the summary judge of the Paris administrative court to suspend the expulsion” of the activist of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP), an organization radical left described as “terrorist” by Israel and the European Union since 2001, estimated the Council of State to justify the annulment of the order of the Paris administrative court.
Breach of public order
The highest French administrative court thus agrees with the Ministry of the Interior which, in mid-October, considered that the presence of the PFLP activist on French soil risked causing a serious attack on public order.
The Ministry of the Interior had justified its decision by invoking “the threat it represents to public order in the context of high tensions” linked to the war between Israel and Hamas unleashed after the bloody attack carried out on October 7 on Israeli territory by the Palestinian Islamist movement.
Obligation to clock in
Awaiting her expulsion, Mariam Abou Daqqa, 72, had been placed under house arrest in Bouches-du-Rhône until the end of November, with the obligation to “remain in the premises where she resides in Marseille from 10 p.m. to 7 a.m.” and to clock in every day at 12:30 p.m. at the city center police station.
Several human rights associations, including the association Lawyers for the Defense of the Rights of Foreigners, had filed an appeal against the order of the Ministry of the Interior. Then the Paris administrative court suspended this order on October 20, arguing that the expulsion of the activist was “neither necessary, nor adapted, nor proportionate to the nature of the disturbances to public order that her presence is likely to cause. ‘train’.