Justice will have to settle the standoff between Bruno Retailleau and the son of terrorist Osama Bin Laden. Living in Orne for many years and married to a British national, Omar Bin Laden is subject to “an administrative ban from the territory”, the Minister of the Interior announced on Tuesday.
The tenant of Place Beauvau believes that Omar Bin Laden “advocated terrorism” in 2023. In question? a tweet posted on May 2 last year, the anniversary of the death of his father, founder of Al-Qaeda and mastermind of the September 11 attacks. But the wife of the son of the former number 1 enemy of the United States does not support this version at all. She therefore intends to fight to invalidate this OQTF.
According to his wife, “Omar had nothing to do with it”
Journalists from BFMTV went to the home of Omar Bin Laden on Tuesday. After finding the door closed, they decided to call the number listed at the entrance. Someone then picks up: Zania Bin Laden, Omar’s wife.
To journalists, she defends her husband, repeating many times that it was “not him who wrote this tweet about his father”. According to her, “the tweet was sent from Yemen by someone who used the name Omar.”
A tweet that allegedly came from Yemen
The message would also be, according to Zania Bin Laden, “only a quote from Winston Churchill”. “When we saw it after this person posted the Yemen message, we reported it to Twitter to say that this was not written by Omar and it is just a quote from Winston Churchill” .
Saying she was “in shock and stressed”, she said: “we are going to appeal”. Because Zania Bin Laden is certain, “Omar never did anything wrong. » “I am 100% confident. Omar is a good person. He would never hurt anyone, that’s all. He’s an artist. He sells his paintings and he lives a really peaceful life. He didn’t write that tweet.” It is now up to justice to decide.
