Government spokesman Olivier Véran maintained this Sunday the objective of carrying out all the obligations to leave French territory (OQTF), a week after the atrocious murder of Lola, 12 years old.
Mentioned in October 2019 by Emmanuel Macron in an interview with Current Values, this promise has been repeated many times by the right and the far right in recent days, while official figures show less than 10% execution for 125 000 measures pronounced in 2020, a year however turned upside down by the arrival of Covid-19, recalls the government.
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“We really want to achieve this total objective”, assured Olivier Véran interviewed by CNews-Europe1-Les Échos. He specified that the rate of execution of OQTFs “has risen very markedly this year”. “We have done 20 times for example this year compared to last year on the expulsions of Algerians”, he remarked. A sign that the subject embarrasses the government, the OQTF execution rate has not been communicated since 2021.
The government is working “diplomatically” with the countries concerned
“What is the blockage? It does not come from our ability to expel people who no longer have their place on the national territory, the blockage, it comes from the ability to have the recipient countries accept the people who come under their nationality”, developed government spokesman. He assured that the government was working “diplomatically hard with all the countries” concerned, citing “in particular Algeria, Morocco”.
Dahbia B., an Algerian suspected of the murder of young Lola in Paris and indicted for “murder” and “aggravated rape”, had been the subject of an OQTF since August. The time limit available to her had expired a few days when the murder was committed.
Regarding the extradition of Moroccan imam Hassan Iquioussen to France, who is calling for his expulsion: “I note that the Belgian prosecutor’s office had pleaded for the (European) arrest warrant to be respected and for the imam to be expelled to from France. The judgment decided otherwise and the prosecution is appealing this decision” “So we are in a procedure that is most normal, except that it experienced a small bump in a decision” of which “we have not yet been informed of the reasons”.
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Following the appeal of the Belgian public prosecutor, the case must return within fifteen days to the indictment chamber of the court of appeal, according to the prosecution.
“Imam Iquioussen is now in prison in Belgium, so in principle not in a mosque in France in the process of delivering dangerous sermons for respect for the rule of law and national cohesion”, added Olivier Véran. Hassan Iquioussen was arrested on September 30 in French-speaking Belgium, under a European arrest warrant.