French Interior Minister Gerald Darmanin will visit Algeria and Tunisia in the coming weeks to discuss with the authorities of these countries the expulsion of their nationals known for their Islamist radicalization, French radio Europe 1 records.
According to this source, the minister wants to strike hard after the assassination of a history professor, beheaded Friday evening by a young Chechen with refugee status. This act moved the whole of France. President Emmanuel Macron, for his part, denounced a characterized terrorist attack.
According to Europe1, the Minister of the Interior must bring together the prefects of France this Sunday at 2 p.m. to ask them to deport in the next few hours 231 deportable foreigners who are in the file of alerts for the prevention of radicalization in terrorist character, the FSPRT
From the same source, it is added that 180 people currently in prison are concerned. Fifty-one others at large will be arrested in the coming hours. It is precisely for this reason that Gérald Darmanin went to Morocco last week, despite burning health news on the coronavirus front.
The minister wanted to talk about the problem of unaccompanied minors but also ask Rabat to recover nine of its radicalized nationals in an irregular situation.
Gérald Darmanin intends to do the same thing next Sunday and Monday, but in Algeria this time, then the following week in Tunisia. The minister will each time be accompanied by the boss of the DGSI (General Directorate of Security) and will bring in his luggage a list of Islamists that France wants to expel, adds the same source.
Finally, still according to Europe 1, Gérald Darmanin has decided to question the right to asylum. The subject should be brought up to the Defense Council at the Elysee Palace. After the terrorist attack in Conflans-Sainte-Honorine, committed by a Chechen refugee who had obtained a residence permit at the age of 18, the Minister of the Interior asked his services to examine more carefully the files of people who wish obtain refugee status in France.
He hopes that Paris, which grants its protection to nationals of certain countries, will no longer do so almost systematically. A real break, demanded for years by the right, but which had never been implemented.
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