After the decision of the Council of State to validate his expulsion to Morocco, Imam Hassan Iquioussen cannot be found. The police had gone to his home on Tuesday afternoon to arrest him, in vain. The man is now on the wanted list.
Imam Hassan Iquioussen, whose expulsion by Gérald Darmanin was validated by the Council of State on Tuesday, is considered to be on the run and has been listed in the file of wanted persons (RPF), AFP learned from a source familiar with the matter. .
After the decision of the Council of State, the police went in the afternoon to the home of the preacher of Moroccan nationality, in Lourches near Valenciennes (North) in order to arrest him to deport him to Morocco. But they did not find him, according to a source familiar with the matter who raised the possibility that he was in Belgium.
Expelled for “deliberate incitement to discrimination and hatred”
In its decision, the Council of State considers that its “anti-Semitic speech”, “reiterated (…) after its apology of 2004”, and its “systematic speech on the inferiority of the woman”, in “videos always available on the internet, the last of which were carried out in 2021”, did indeed constitute “acts of explicit and deliberate provocation to discrimination or hatred”.
The imam’s lawyer, Me Lucie Simon, reacted on twitter by believing that this decision symbolized “a weakened rule of law” and deplored “an alarming context of pressure from the executive on the judiciary”. “The legal battle continues, the administrative court of Paris will have to look into the merits of the case soon and Hassan Iquioussen is studying the possibility of seizing the ECHR again”, she added.
Hassan Iquioussen, aged 58, is now part of the file of wanted persons.