(Radio France) A Paris administrative court on Monday upheld a decision to deport French-born Moroccan imam Hassan Iquioussen. Sent back to Morocco in 2023 after being accused of hate speech, Iquioussen says he will appeal the verdict.
The court “rejects Mr. Iquioussen’s request for the annulment of the expulsion decision taken by the minister of the interior on July 29, 2022.”
In a statement, the court said that the imam had “committed repeated acts of explicit and deliberate provocation to discrimination, hatred or violence against Jews, women and non-Muslims.”
Iquioussen’s lawyer Lucie Simon said the court decision did not take into account any of her client’s arguments, nor the context, “retaining comments more than ten to twenty years old.”
