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France expels Tunisian imam accused of hate speech

A TikTok screengrab of the Tunisian imam Mahjoub Mahjoubi. © Capture d'écran / Tik Tok / Mahjoub Mahjoubi

French authorities on Thursday expelled a Tunisian imam accused of preaching hatred against women and Jews, Interior Minister Gerald Darmanin announced.

Mahjoub Mahjoubi, an imam in the small southern French town of Bagnols-sur-Ceze, was sent back to Tunisia "less than 12 hours after his arrest", Darmanin said in a post on X.

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