Gérald Darmanin had ordered the expulsion of the preacher, suspended by the administrative court. The decision on appeal is expected for the start of the week of August 29.
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Iquioussen vs Darmanin, Act II. Friday, August 26, the Council of State examined on appeal the question of the expulsion of the imam speaker of the north of France, Hassan Iquioussen, ordered by Gérald Darmanin, before being suspended by the administrative justice. As of July 28, the Minister of the Interior himself announced on Twitter the expulsion of this preacher, who “has been a hate speech for years against France, contrary to our principles of secularism and equality between women and men “.
The expulsion decree was suspended by the administrative court. Reason: “a serious and manifestly disproportionate damage” to his “private and family life”. Because if Hassan Iquioussen, 58, has Moroccan nationality, he was born in France and father of five French children, married to a Moroccan in regular situation, and has always lived on French soil with a residence permit regularly renewed until At the last, who expired on June 3. As soon as the suspension of his expulsion decree was announced, the Minister of the Interior had appealed before the Council of State.
The case is there, Friday, August 26, when the hearing opens before the highest administrative jurisdiction, unusually populated by cameras. Meanwhile, Mr. Iquioussen’s lawyer, but also the Human Rights League and a magistrate from the Paris Administrative Court, has received threats. In the Conseil’s litigation room of the Council of State, the representative of the Ministry of the Interior and the lawyer of Mr. Iquioussen resume the face-to-face already played at first instance, each sketching a different portrait of the same man.
Battle of quotes
The first draws the features of a “charismatic preacher” holding a “double discourse”, which “spreads insidious ideas” constituting “the breeding ground for separatism and acts of terrorism”, in the words of Pascale Léglise, The Director of Public Liberties and Legal Affairs at the Ministry of the Interior. The second depicts a “conservative”, who certainly has a “retrograde vision of the place of women” and practices “a form of political Islam” by inciting Muslims to the vote, but “does not represent a threat of such gravity that she justifies the expulsion of a man who has spent all her life in France “, as his lawyer says, M e Lucie Simon.
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