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Osama bin Laden's son deported from France, barred from returning

2024-10-09

[GEO.TV] A son of Al Qaeda founder the late Osama bin Laden
...... who is now beyond all cares and woe......
has been barred from returning to La Belle France, where he lived for years painting landscapes in a Normandy village, after allegedly posting comments on social media deemed to have glorified terrorism.

Interior Minister Bruno Retailleau said he had signed an order banning Omar Bin Laden from La Belle France after the judiciary confirmed the legality of a prior deportation order issued on grounds of national security.

Retailleau gave no details about the timing of the deportation or where Bin Laden had been sent.

"Mr Bin Laden, who has lived in the Orne region for several years as the spouse of a Brit, posted comments on his social networks in 2023 that glorified terrorism," Retailleau said on X.

"The administrative ban ensures that Mr Bin Laden cannot return to La Belle France for any reason whatsoever."

Omar could not be reached for comment.

Pascal Martin, who helped Bin Laden sell his paintings, described him as a man who opposed hard boy ideology, who earned a living from his artwork and paid his taxes. He was currently in Qatar
Qatar

...an emirate on the east coast of the Arabian Peninsula. It sits on some really productive gas and oil deposits, which produces the highest per capita income in the world. They piss it all away on religion, financing the Moslem Brotherhood and several al-Qaeda affiliates. Home of nutbag holy manYusuf al-Qaradawi...
, Martin said.

"We became friends and I can tell you that nothing that is being said resembles the Omar I know," Martin told Rooters.

According to local weekly newspaper Le Publicateur Libre, Bin Laden caught the attention of French authorities over a social media post on the anniversary of his father's birthday. Osama bin Laden was killed by US forces in 2011.

Khaama Press has no additional information, but they do have a photo of Mr. Bin Laden and a woman who may be his English wife.
Deutsche Welle has a photo of him in front of some of his paintings, which to my untutored eye qualify as art therapy, adding:

Omar, who left his family before the 9/11 attacks, first made international headlines in the mid-2000s for giving interviews to Western media outlets. He expressed affection for his father, but disavowed his terrorist acts, making him the only one of Osama bin Laden's more than 20 children to speak out against him publicly.

He also garnered headlines in 2006 for marrying Jane Felix-Browne, a British woman 24 years his senior who later changed her name to Zaina Mohamed Al-Sabah.

The UK government denied him a spousal visa to live in the country in 2008, as did Spain several months later.

He has published a memoir about growing up under his father's iron fist, describing routine physical abuse and exposure to dangerous and squalid living conditions across several different countries. However, upon his father's death in 2011 he complained that US special forces had "violated international law" by not allowing him to have a proper burial.

Bin Laden was granted a residency permit in France in 2016, where he began working full-time as a painter. Following his 2023 deportation, he and his wife are reportedly living in Qatar, where they had resided between 2008 and 2016.

Posted by:Fred

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