Deported: Ex-French Jihadist with Terror Plot Sent to Morocco After 5-Year Sentence

Badr Eddine Akroud, 53, has not been French since 2024. The Paris judicial court had sentenced this former radiophysicist working in Yzeure (Allier) to five years in prison in July 2021, according to JDD. He would have made anti-French and anti-police speeches, and would have engaged in night training to "strike" and prepare to join a land of jihad, in Mali or Mauritania. During the searches at his home, the investigators discovered videos of beheading and propaganda from the Islamic State and Al-Qaeda on his phone. They also seized a 6.35 mm caliber automatic pistol loaded, as well as several knives.

After being placed in administrative detention for 210 days - which is possible in terrorism matters - this former dual national had been placed under house arrest in the Hauts-de-Seine where he had to report to the police station four times a day. The Place Beauvau considers him a priority target. His file was at the heart of discussions between the Minister of the Interior, Bruno Retailleau and his Moroccan counterpart. For his part, the prefect of Hauts-de-Seine, Alexandre Brugère, accelerated the administrative file. According to a close source, a passport was finally issued by the Moroccan authorities, which made it possible to unblock the situation.

On Friday, Eddine Akroud was handed over to the Moroccan authorities. "Removals to this country have doubled since the beginning of the year," reports a government source. Unlike Algeria, Morocco is keen to be the "good student" of the region.