PARIS (EFE).— France has expelled the eldest son of terrorist Osama bin Laden, who had lived for years in Normandy with his wife, a British national, for advocating terrorism with a message in which he honored the memory of his father. official sources reported yesterday.
The Minister of the Interior, Bruno Retailleau, announced yesterday in a message on his X account that his entry into France has also been prohibited again, “for whatever reason.”
Retailleau explained that the prefect (government delegate) of the Orne department, where Omar Binladin lived, decreed his expulsion, a decision whose regularity was confirmed by Justice “for national security.”
Regarding the reason for his expulsion, the minister said that in 2023 he had made statements that could be considered “apology for terrorism.”
Specifically, a message is thrown in his face on the anniversary of the death of his father, killed in 2011 by the US military in an operation in Pakistan, praising his figure.
The son of the Al Qaeda leader, who had lived in Normandy since 2016 and had started an artist’s activity, had denied being responsible for the message.
Osama bin Laden was the founder of Al Qaeda, an organization considered terrorist by the UN Security Council, the United States, the European Union and other countries.
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