Threatened with expulsion, the mobilization for the president of the Pessac Mosque must increase on Saturday August 31!

While France, without a government but intoxicated by carelessness, continues to vibrate to the rhythm of the Olympic festivities, and Paris, the City of Lights, strives to dazzle the world with a very illusory brilliance, the days pass slowly, painfully, arbitrarily, for Abdourahmane Ridouanebehind the gates of the Mesnil-Amelot detention center.

Suddenly arrested at his home by the police on 8 August and deprived of his liberty since then, after the expulsion planned for the same day to Niger was aborted by the wave of indignation it aroused, the president of the Pessac Mosque is now counting down, not without anxiety, the hours that bring him closer to his final recourse in the face of the injustice that has struck him: his appearance before the Council of State on September 6.

From the detention centre where he is languishing, the victim of genuine political persecution, close to Roissy Charles de Gaulle airport, which is not likely to reassure him, the sword of Damocles of expulsion weighs more heavily on him than ever.

Her ” expulsion is still possible “, warns his lawyer, Me Sefen Guez Guez, in a press release in which he specifies in substance: ” Following the order issued by the Paris Administrative Court on 9 August 2024, it was decided to refer the matter to the Council of State to challenge the expulsion procedure against him, essentially because he rightly denounces the treatment of Palestinians by Israel. “.

And to press where the shoe pinches: ” Let us recall that before the order of the Minister of the Interior, the president of the Pessac Mosque justified 4 judicial decisions rendered in his favor “, concluding scathingly to the resigning minister Darmanin: “ We expect the Council of State to put this case back as it is for the Minister of the Interior: a final trophy on the account of the Muslim component of our country. France deserves better.“.

While waiting for the crucial decision of the Council of State, the tremendous wave of solidarity with Abdourahmane Ridouane must not weaken, it must even grow stronger. Saturday August 31, Place de la Nation, in Paris.

To sign without delay: the Petition in support of Abdourahmane Ridouane