Hassan Iquioussen remains in France, at least for now. Referred to in summary proceedings, the administrative court suspended, on Friday August 5, her expulsion ordered by the Minister of the Interior Gérald Darmanin, insofar as she would carry “disproportionate harm” to the ” private and family life ” of the imam of the North of France. “Far from the media sirens, the law”commented his lawyer, Me Lucie Simon, on Twitter.
Gérald Darmanin has already announced that he will appeal to the Council of State. He had signed a ministerial order of expulsion last week, accusing the preacher of “acts of explicit and deliberate incitement to discrimination, hatred or violence against a group of people”. In question, lists the decree: “A proselytizing discourse (…) carrying a vision of Islam contrary to the values of the French Republic”, “a speech with a particularly virulent anti-Semitic content”advocating the “submission of women for the benefit of men”encouraging the “separatism” and the ” contempt ” of secularism. Before the National Assembly on Tuesday, the Minister of the Interior reaffirmed that Mr. Iquioussen, born in France but of Moroccan nationality, would be expelled “military hand”Morocco having already issued a consular pass.
A decision “completely disproportionate” challenged by Me Lucie Simon, who quickly filed an appeal with the European Court of Human Rights – which refused, on Thursday, to suspend the expulsion order as a matter of urgency – and a summary appeal before the administrative court, whose he hearing was also held on Thursday.
” Double speech “
Two portraits of Hassan Iquioussen have been erected there, in a room rustling with his supporters. The first, portrayed by his lawyer, is a “defender of Islam of the golden mean”certainly not the most “progressive”in particular on gender equality, but which “does not represent a threat of such gravity and such topicality that it is absolutely necessary to expel him when he has spent his life on the territory”.
The other, outlined by Pascale Léglise, Director of Public Liberties and Legal Affairs at the Ministry of the Interior, is “a religious preacher who holds a double discourse as the Brotherhood movements often do” but, which according to her clearly incites “to separatism, to the non-respect of equality between men and women, to the fact that Sharia must be placed above the laws of the Republic”.
The representative of the Ministry of the Interior thus recalls his anti-Semitic remarks made in 2003 during a conference on Palestine – he apologized for it, retorts his lawyer, for whom he is “anti-Zionist but not anti-Semitic” – before launching into a long list of quotes from his speeches “retrogrades” on women, stigmatizing the Jews”, “placing Sharia above the principles of the Republic”, “supporting Bin Laden”, “victimizing the Muslim community”…Sermons “all the more serious as it has a very large audience”with more than 170,000 subscribers on YouTube and nearly 45,000 on Facebook, “ from which it distills its precepts which constitute the breeding ground for terrorist actions”.
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