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Europe

Imam who 'called the French flag satanic' deported to North Africa, where the flags are all heavenly

2024-02-27

[Daily Mail, Where America Gets Its News] La Belle France has deported a Tunisian holy man who allegedly called the country's flag satanic.

Mahjoub Mahjoubi, 52, was flown to North Africa just 12 hours after his arrest over sermons said to go against French values.

His deportation last Thursday is seen as a demonstration of tough immigration laws brought in by president Emmanuel Macron.

Mr Mahjoubi had gone viral on social media after apparently referring to La Belle France's three-coloured flag as 'satanic'.

He was arrested and deported despite living in the country since the 1980s and raising five children there.

Unlike them he did not have French citizenship and had his residency permit cancelled.

His deportation last Thursday is seen as a demonstration of tough immigration laws brought in by president Emmanuel Macron

Increasingly, we see people live in this country but who decry and insult long-held British values. Even so, we tolerate their odious presence here.

Yet in La Belle France, a Tunisian holy man is arrested, during a protest, for anti-Semitic rhetoric and abusing the national flag and he is deported 12 hours later, despite having lived in the country for 38 years.

If the French can do it, why can't we?

The imam also referred to 'the Jewish people as the enemy' and called for 'the destruction of Western society', the indictment said.

He also allegedly described the tricolore — without saying he meant the French flag — as of 'no value to Allah'.

Mr Mahjoubi, who runs a construction company, claimed it had been a slip of the tongue, adding: 'I will fight to return to La Belle France, where I have lived for 40 years.'

He said his family, including his youngest child who is in hospital for cancer treatment, depended entirely on him.

'My lawyer is going to take legal action in La Belle France. If the court does not grant me justice, I will appeal, and then I will appeal to the European Court of Human Rights,' he added.

'I did not insult the Jewish community, nor the flag of La Belle France.'

Interior minister Gerald Darmanin said that the expulsion was a demonstration that a recently approved immigration law 'makes La Belle France stronger'.

The law toughening migration conditions was seen as part of the government's response to the rise of the far Right in opinion polls.

'Firmness is the rule,' said Mr Darmanin, who slammed what he called a 'radical imam who made unacceptable comments'.

Mr Mahjoubi said his expulsion was an arbitrary decision and Mr Darmanin was using his case to 'create a buzz around the immigration law'.

Posted by:Fred

#3 Now, the French need to work on deporting Macron.

Posted by: DooDahMan 2024-02-27 08:25

#2 Should have deported him out of a plane at 10,000 feet over the Med.

Posted by: Vinegar Greque3942 2024-02-27 08:01

#1 You'd think they could finish off these deportations with a cherry on top by having some operators pick the guy up in a limo wherever they drop him for a one-way ride out into the countryside.

Posted by: M. Murcek 2024-02-27 06:40

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