The Minister of the Interior, Gérald Darmanin, announced the expulsion of the Moroccan preacher at the end of July. It has been not found since Tuesday August 30 and the confirmation of the decree by the Council of State.
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This is information from the Lille judicial police, in collaboration with the National Fugitive Brigade, who apparently helped the Belgian police to flush the Moroccan imam Hassan Iquioussen: he was arrested, “without incident “According to a French source, Friday, September 30, near Mons, in Belgian Hainaut. Information quickly confirmed by the Federal Minister of Justice, Vincent Van Quickenborne.
Ingenable in France since Tuesday August 30, the 58 -year -old Moroccan preacher, whose Minister of the Interior Gérald Darmanin had announced the expulsion at the end of July, would then have quickly crossed the border, according to what said At the time the prefect of the Hauts-de-France region, Georges-François Leclerc. The Imam made, since the green light of the Council of State to his expulsion and a European arrest warrant issued by an investigating judge of Valenciennes (North) for “subtraction of the execution of a decision of removal “, The object of research in Belgium.
His possible installation in the country had been mentioned since the beginning of August and had aroused the concern of certain political leaders fearing that once again, Belgium appears as “a hideout of Islamism in Europe” , according to the formula of Georges-Louis Bouchez, president of the reforming movement (liberal right). The government said, in any case, to follow the case closely.
The French expulsion decree targeting M. Iquioussen reproached him “a proselyte speech enamelled with words encouraging hatred and discrimination and carrying a vision of Islam contrary to the values of the Republic”. His lawyer, M e
é> Lucie Simon, disputed the validity of the arrest warrant targeting him, believing that he was based on an uncomprised offense.
Hassan Iquioussen did not No residence permit in Belgium
According to the French Ministry of the Interior, it is now up to Belgian justice to “give the interested party to the French authorities in execution of the European arrest warrant”. Place Beauvau visibly tables the automaticity of the European arrest warrant, designed to avoid the slowness of a “classic” extradition procedure.
A Belgian judge will however have to verify whether the incrimination chosen by Paris, namely “subtraction to an expulsion measure”, punishable by three years’ imprisonment in France, allows this automaticity. And if it constitutes, or not, an offense with regard to Belgian law, whatever the reasons invoked by Paris. The magistrate will in fact have to estimate whether the facts alleged against the preacher by the French authorities constitute, or not, “serious punishable facts”, which he could also commit in Belgium. Mr. Iquioussen will be authorized to express themselves during this procedure and his lawyer will certainly dispute the European arrest warrant.
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