The President of the Pessac Mosque Arrested to Be Expelled. His Lawyer Is Outraged and Counter-Attacks
A few days after a court decision which was in her favour, since she paved the way for its regularizationit was a complete turnaround in the situation that took Abdourahmane Ridouane by surprise at dawn on Thursday, August 8.
The president of the Pessac mosque, a Nigerien national, was in fact arrested as soon as he got out of bed, as part of a ministerial expulsion order published on Monday, a source close to the case confirmed. According to this order, the Interior Ministry accuses Abdourahmane Ridouane, already under house arrest during the Olympic Games period, of the dissemination on social networks of ” of an ideology hostile to the values and institutions of the French Republic “.
The authorities also accuse him of ” of publications with anti-Semitic and hateful content against Israel and Jews “, notably by relaying, four days after the Hamas attack against Israel on October 7, a press cartoon presenting the Palestinian Islamist organization as a movement ” self-defense ” And ” exonerating this organization from the terrorist dimension of its action “.
The sudden turn of events comes just a week after the Bordeaux administrative court ordered authorities to “reexamine” Mr Ridouane’s unanswered application to renew his residence permit and issue him with a provisional “receipt” authorising him to work in France, according to the ruling. In June, a judicial court’s expulsion commission had issued an unfavourable advisory opinion on his possible deportation.
His lawyer, Me Sefen Guez Guez, immediately protested against this ” new procedure » Who sits on the opinion of the judicial court and the decision of the administrative court of Bordeaux”. ” The state is organizing itself so that the operation is carried out at such a rapid pace that the court cannot intervene, it is scandalous. “, he was indignant, announcing his firm intention to file an urgent appeal this Friday, August 9, as stipulated in his tweet below.
Because every hour now counts for his client, Abdourahmane Ridouane, who, as soon as he was arrested, was placed in detention and taken to Mérignac airport to take a flight under police escort to Paris. Once in the capital, he was directed to the Administrative Detention Center (CRA) in Mesnil-Amelot (Seine-et-Marne), near Roissy-Charles-de-Gaulle. A smoothly conducted expulsion from France, right in the middle of the Olympic festivities…
