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The president of the Pessac mosque, Abdourahmane Ridouane, is placed under judicial supervision pending his trial which will be held on January 13, as part of the procedure launched against him for having shared a publication paying tribute to Ismaïl Haniyeh, Anadolu learned on Monday from a source close to the matter.
Accused of advocating terrorism, he was placed in police custody on Thursday, following a report made by the Ministry of the Interior. His appearance, which was to be held this Monday before the Meaux court (Paris region), was postponed until January 13 by the magistrate.
In fact, while he has been detained in an Administrative Detention Center (CRA) since August 8 following an expulsion procedure initiated by the French government which refuses to renew his residence permit, the association manager will be released on Wednesday, after 90 days of detention, as announced by his master lawyer Sefen Guez Guez in a publication on the social network X.
As a reminder, the Council of State rejected, last September, the appeal brought by Abdourahmane Ridouane, to contest his expulsion from French territory.
The highest administrative court in the country, in fact, considered in its decision that the publications of the person concerned were likely to justify his expulsion, and that he “does not prove that it would constitute an attack on his fundamental freedoms “.
The Paris administrative court had already ruled in this direction on August 10, establishing the same conclusions for publications particularly linked to the ongoing war in Gaza.
This decision came even though, a few days earlier, he had won an appeal brought before the administrative courts ordering the prefecture to issue him a residence permit.
During the month of June, the Bordeaux judicial court also issued an opinion unfavorable to this expulsion.
For the commission responsible for examining the expulsion request made by the Prefecture, “Mr. Ridouane’s Facebook publications – the only basis used by the Prefecture – do not demonstrate that the latter would behave in a manner likely to harm the fundamental interests of the State,” said Master Sefen Guez Guez.
In an interview with Anadolu, the latter recently believed that his client was targeted by the authorities because of “his attachment to the defense of the Palestinian cause and his criticism of France’s international policy, including in Niger, his country of origin.” ‘origin “.
Although Abdourahmane Ridouane was indeed searched and arrested on August 8 and placed in CRA awaiting his expulsion, the authorities were unable to send him back to Niger, from where he arrived in 1990.
According to information from Anadolu, Niger did not respond to the request for a consular permit, the only document allowing his return, in the absence of Abdourahmane Ridouane’s passport.
Note that the latter is part of the long list of Muslim religious and association leaders to be targeted by administrative authorities amid accusations of separatism and support for the Palestinian cause.
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