France’s top court has green-lighted the expulsion of prominent imam Hassan Iquioussen, the country's interior minister announced Tuesday.
“The Council of State validates the expulsion of Mr. Iquioussen who holds and propagates in particular anti-Semitic remarks and contrary to equality between women and men," Gerald Darmanin said in a tweet.
The court overturned an earlier ruling which stated that his expulsion would constitute a “disproportionate attack” toward his “private and family life.”
Iquioussen is now likely to be deported to Morocco.
Iquioussen’s lawyer Lucie Simon in a series of tweets, indicated the interior minister who had ordered the deportation, pressured the judiciary into giving the ruling.
In late July, the Interior Ministry canceled his resident's permit for making anti-Semitic, and "anti-women" remarks during sermons or conferences, which Iquioussen says are "baseless accusations."
Source: Anadolu Agency