Tunisian group sues French-Tunisian imam for ‘high treason’ over visit to Israel Watchdog demands Hassen Chalghoumi loses citizenship after ‘undermining the prestige of the Tunisian state’

July 17, 2025   

(Middle East Eye) A Tunisian organisation has filed a legal complaint against French-Tunisian imam Hassen Chalghoumi and called for him to be stripped of his Tunisian citizenship following his recent visit to Israel in the midst of its onslaught on Gaza.

Chalghoumi, the imam of Drancy’s municipal mosque near Paris and the chairman of the Conference of Imams of France, led a delegation of Muslim clerics from Europe to Israel in a visit that claimed to “build bridges and promote inter-religious dialogue.”

The delegation of 15 imams and Muslim leaders from France, Italy, the Netherlands, Belgium and the UK met with Israeli President Isaac Herzog and visited sites connected to the 7 October 2023 Hamas-led attack, including Kibbutz Kfar Aza near the Gaza Strip.

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