The ex-president of a Gironde mosque condemned for the apology of terrorism

The former Nigerian president of a Gironde mosque, in the process of expulsion since last summer, was sentenced on Monday March 10 to four months in prison suspended for “Apology of terrorism”.

The judicial court of Meaux, in Seine-et-Marne, where Abdourahmane Ridouane had spent 90 days in a center of administrative detention last year, also sentenced it to two years of prohibition of French territory, with registration in the file of perpetrators of terrorist offenses.

The authorities accused this 60 -year -old man, who chaired the Pessac mosque in the Bordeaux agglomeration, of having “Justified terrorist acts” And “Provided to discrimination or hatred towards Western countries, the State of Israel as well as all people of Jewish religion”.

In question, messages “Legitimant” The attack perpetrated on October 7, 2023 by Hamas against Israel, or saluting the memory of his ex-head, Ismaïl Haniyeh, after his assassination on July 31, 2024 in Tehran.

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The administration also reproached him for having made or relayed remarks accusing France of practicing a “State Islamophobia”.

As part of a parallel administrative procedure, since the end of its legal duration of detention in November, Abdourahmane Ridouane has also been under house arrest in Gironde, with an obligation to point three times a day at the police station.

This device was put in place for lack of deliverance of a consular pass by its country of origin, explained the prefecture of Gironde.

His lawyer Me Sefen Guez, who could not be joined immediately, had denounced a “Rooming” of the state after the implementation of these surveillance conditions.