Hassan Iquioussen, an imam of Moroccan nationality residing in France is on the run. The day before, the Council of State had validated his expulsion from French territory.
Interior Minister Gérald Darmanin ordered at the end of July the expulsion of this man, reputed to be close to the Islamist organization Muslim Brotherhood. A decision rejected by the administrative court, which considered that an expulsion would carry “disproportionate interference with his private and family life“. Mr. Iquioussen was indeed born in France, his children and most of his family are French.
But this Tuesday, August 30, the Council of State annulled the decision of the administrative court and gave the green light to the eviction. He estimated that in particular in the videos broadcast on his Youtube channel (178,000 subscribers), Hassan Iquioussen had repeatedly made speeches on “the inferiority of women” and threw “acts of explicit and deliberate incitement to discrimination or hatred“.
A decision applauded by Gérald Darmanin, who described the decision as “great victory for the republic“. The man had made the fight once morest the “islamic separatism“one of his great commitments.
“He will be expelled from the national territory. As soon as he is arrested, he will be placed in an administrative detention center“, said Mr. Darmanin at the start of the evening, from the steps of his ministry.
But when the police came to arrest Hassan Iquioussen at his home near Valenciennes in northern France, they did not find him. Considered to be on the run, he is now listed in the file of wanted persons (RPF). He might have taken refuge in Belgium.