Expelled Moroccan Imam Challenges Spain’s Deportation Order, Seeks Police Reports

Mohamed Said Badaoui, who had lived in Reus (Tarragona) for 30 years, is asking the National Court to publish the police reports that allowed it to decide to refuse him Spanish nationality. The Moroccan imam was expelled from Spanish territory on November 20, a month after his arrest and detention at the Barcelona Foreigners Detention Center (CIE) on October 19, based on information from the General Information Commissariat (CGI) presenting him as a "radicalized" and a threat to national security.

According to Badaoui’s lawyer, Ivan Aybar, the grounds given in the expulsion procedure, launched on August 5, are the same as those used to refuse him nationality months ago, namely that his client represents a "real, certain and imminent danger" to state security. In a letter addressed this Thursday to the Court, Aybar requests to have the full content of the police reports that led to the expulsion of his client, denouncing a "dilatory maneuver". The lawyer intends to bring the facts to the attention of the public prosecutor’s office so that it can determine the possible responsibility of the administration in the "repeated and persistent" breach of the Court’s decisions.