Clément Bargain, edited by Juliette Moreau Alvarez
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07:49, August 31, 2022
The Council of State gave the green light to the expulsion of Imam Hassan Iquioussen on Tuesday. A decision which cancels that of the administrative court of Paris, considering an attack on the private and family life of the imam. Didier Maus, constitutionalist, does not doubt the jurisprudence of the conclusion of the Council of State.
The Council of State on Tuesday validated the expulsion of Imam Hassan Iquioussen. The institution was examining an appeal by the Ministry of the Interior against the decision of the Paris administrative court to suspend the expulsion of the imam. The court considered that the expulsion procedure carried a “disproportionate attack” on the “private and family life” of the imam of the North. The highest administrative court finally ruled and decided to confirm his expulsion, desired by Gérald Darmanin.
“The attack on family life has not been demonstrated”
The case law is clear according to the constitutionalist Didier Maus: “The attack on married life and family life has not been demonstrated”, he explains. “The Council of State takes care to note that his five children are adults, which means that if they were minors, the decision could be different.” The same goes for the imam’s wife who, according to the Council of State, “is able to go to Morocco, to join her husband if necessary to live there.” For Didier Maus, “this makes case law, it’s obvious”.
“It is a perfectly classic case law that is applied”, specifies the constitutionalist. “The balance between, on the one hand, the threat to public security through the anti-Semitic and discriminatory remarks that have been made and the right to normal family life, it is a balance of interests that the judge administrative done very, very regularly”.