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Anne Soy France has expelled a Tunisian Islamic religious leader for being "radical", France's Interior Minister Gerald Darmanin said on X, formerly Twitter.
BBC News, Nairobi "The radical imam Mahjoub Mahjoubi has just been expelled from the national territory, less than 12 hours after his arrest," Mr Darmanin said.
He was sent back to Tunisia via a Thursday evening flight, the Reuters news agency reported, citing French media reports.
The men’s marathon world record holder, Kelvin Kiptum, is due to be buried later on Friday at his home in Eldoret in western Kenya. Mr Mahjoubi had caused controversy and eventually faced arrest after a video of him describing the "tricolour flag" as "a satanic flag" that has "no value with Allah" went viral earlier this week.
Kenyan President William Ruto will lead mourners in honouring a brilliant and promising athlete who set and broke records in his brief running career. He did not specify which flag he was talking about, but many assumed he meant the French flag, which has three colours.
Kiptum died in a car crash, aged only 24, two weeks ago. Mr Mahjoubi has denied wrongdoing and said that his statement in the video was misinterpreted.
Thousands have paid tribute to Kiptum in his hometown. "This is the demonstration that the immigration law, without which such a rapid expulsion would not have been possible, makes France stronger. We won't let anything go," Mr Darmanin said of the expulsion.
Crowds gathered along the way in Eldoret as the hearse was driven to his village ahead of the burial. France expelled Mr Mahjoubi under a new law that has reduced protections for foreign residents, making it easier for the government to forcibly remove them from the country.
His career as an athlete was only just starting. Mr Mahjoubi's lawyer said he would appeal against the expulsion.
In two years, he’d run three of the seven fastest marathons in history, broken the world record and set the London course record.
He had set his sights on running a sub two-hour marathon in Rotterdam this April.
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