The father of Mohamed Merah expelled from France – Le Figaro

The father of Toulouse and Montauban killer was arrested Friday morning in Haute-Garonne for staying illegally on French territory and expelled earlier this afternoon.

Mohamed Benalel Merah was expelled from French territory. A few weeks after having refused the renewal of his residence permit, the French authorities have arrested Friday morning. The father of Mohamed Merah, author of the 2012 attacks in Toulouse and Montauban, was handed over to the police and air borders (PAF) and deported, as required by the legislation. “When there is a refusal of grant renewal of a residence permit, it is required to leave the territory,” said Bernard Cazeneuve was before the National Assembly on Tuesday. “This obligation is enforceable and now (…) will be executed,” warned the Minister of Interior.

The plane leading him to Oran, Algeria, took off early this afternoon from Toulouse-Blagnac airport, said a police source.

The Algeria was near the cemetery of Cornebarrieu, a suburb of Toulouse, where her son is buried, during his arrest indicated police sources. The man whose residence permit has expired on May 9 had recently returned to France to apply for renewal. A request denied by the Haute-Garonne prefecture on the grounds that the person resides mostly outside French territory, Algeria. According to the legal deadline, the decision was notified to it on 9 April, a month before the expiry of his title ten-year residence. The expulsion procedure Benalel Mohamed Merah, who had resumed his habits in the neighborhood of Mirail in Toulouse, therefore became enforceable.

Presented to the competent authorities, who presented his son as a victim of a conspiracy of the French secret services, who filed a complaint against the Raid for murder, has been expelled. A common procedure identical to that being experienced in theory illegal alien. No link with the terrorist activities of his son motivated this decision. The publication of a report on the delay of France in the fight against jihadist published earlier this week does not seem foreign to this reactivity. The Beauveau up and sends a clear message, answering the call from Eric Ciotti.