(New Arab) The French government has deported an Algerian Salafist preacher who was accused of glorifying terrorism, French media reported on Wednesday.
Abderrahim Sayah, who founded the As-Sunnah mosque in Hautmont which was shut down by authorities in 2018, was deported to Algeria on instructions from the Minister of Interior Gerald Darmanin.
Darmanin hailed the move, announcing in a tweet on Wednesday that since 2017 “850 extremist foreigners have been deported.”
Sayah, who arrived in France at [the] age of five and has six children, founded the religious association Assalem in 2014 and opened the As-Sunnah mosque in Hautmont through the organisation.
