(Radio France) A European arrest warrant has been issued for French-born Moroccan imam Hassan Iquioussen, who has been on the run since Tuesday when French authorities approved his deportation. The preacher has been accused of hate speech and anti-Semitism.
The Muslim preacher, regularly presented as an imam, has been missing since the Council of State, France’s highest court, gave the green light for his expulsion to Morocco.
He is likely to have taken refuge in Belgium, according to the prefect of the Hauts-de-France region, Georges-François Leclerc.
Iquioussen stands accused of “a proselytising speech interspersed with remarks inciting hatred and discrimination and carrying a vision of Islam contrary to the values of [the] Republic,” according to the expulsion document sent by the Interior Ministry on 29 July.
