France began to impose punishments on Muslim imams who spoke anti-Semitic and anti-French incitement. The Court of Appeals in Toulouse handed down a suspended prison sentence to Imam Muhammad Tattayat, who delivered a sermon that was broadcast on social media in 2017. The lawyer representing the Ben-Gurion Association, Jacques Samuel, expressed his satisfaction and relief that the court did “pick up the The duplicity in Muhammad Tatayat’s words”. A lawyer on behalf of the Crieff Council of Jewish Organizations, Simon Cohen, insisted on the need to emphasize the “dangerous” nature of these things.
The sentence was based on the words of the imam in the hadith (sayings of the Prophet Muhammad) on December 15, 2017 at the mosque in the Ampalot district of Toulouse. At the same time, Imam Egiussan from the city of Loresh in the north of the country, who preached anti-Semitic sermons for years and against whom a deportation order was issued to Morocco because he holds a Moroccan passport, was arrested by the French police and disappeared from his home.
He escaped, apparently to nearby Belgium. French Interior Minister Gerard Dramnan, who spoke of the “victory of the law and the republic” following the sentencing in Tatayat’s trial, was forced a few hours later to express the hope that if Egiussan is caught in Belgium, it will deport him according to an international extradition order issued by Interpol.