(AFP) A Tunisian imam expelled from France for alleged hate speech said on Friday he would take legal action in a bid to overturn the decision.
Mahjoub Mahjoubi, from the town of Bagnols-sur-Ceze in the south of France, denounced his removal as “arbitrary.”
The 52-year-old was arrested and then deported to Tunisia on Thursday, where he arrived shortly before midnight aboard a flight from Paris.
Mahjoubi had been in France since the 1980s and is married with five children.
All of his children are French citizens, but he is not and had his residency permit cancelled on Sunday by French Interior Minister Gerald Darmanin.
