Imam Iquioussen attacks Gérald Darmanin for defamation – archyde

The lawyers of the Moroccan imam Hassan Iquioussen, claimed by the French courts for having evaded an expulsion order, have taken legal action for public defamation against their client by Gérald Darmanin, it has been reported. learned Friday from a judicial source. In their direct quote, the lawyers accuse the Minister of the Interior of remarks which they consider defamatory with regard to Hassan Iquioussen. In particular, they dispute statements by Gérald Darmanin on BFMTV on September 2, in which he presented the imam as “a delinquent, a fugitive and a separatist” or affirmed that “Mr. is exempt from the court decision.”Hassan Iquioussen already won a first round on Friday before a court in Belgium, where he went into exile. After hearing the imam behind closed doors, who contests his extradition, the council chamber of the Tournai court “refused the surrender to France”. The Tournai public prosecutor’s office announced that it had appealed. The validity of the arrest warrant in question Hassan Iquioussen, arrested on September 30 in French-speaking Belgium, is subject to a deportation order. At the end of July, Gérald Darmanin announced the expulsion of this preacher from the North, on file S (for state security) by the intelligence services “for eighteen months”, according to him. But Hassan Iquioussen could not be found when this decree, which he had challenged in court, had been definitively validated by the Council of State on August 31. According to his lawyer, Me Lucie Simon, his client “purely and simply respected French law when leaving France for Wallonia”. The lawyer had challenged the validity of the arrest warrant issued by a judge in Valenciennes, believing that it was based “on an unconstitutional offense”. Born in France, Hassan Iquioussen had decided at his majority not to opt for the French nationality. He claims to have given it up at the age of 17 under the influence of his father, and then to have tried in vain to recover it. His five children and his 15 grandchildren are French and established in the north of France: one son is an imam in Raismes, another ex-elected PS in Lourches.