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France to deport Tunisian imam for preaching against France

The minaret of the Grand Mosque of Paris. © JOEL SAGET / AFP

France’s Interior Minister has asked for a Tunisian imam to be stripped of his French residence permit, after authorities were alerted to his anti-French preaching.

Interior Minister Gerarld Darmanin said that Mahjoub Mahjoubi, an imam in Bagnols-sur-Céze, near Avignon, in the south of France, would be deported.

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