France Expels 48 Radicalized Foreign Nationals, Including Moroccans

These official figures provided by Gérald Darmanin, on Franceinfo, are still far from the 231 announced by himself, in mid-October, reports RTL. In addition to the 48 expulsions, "half of these 231 people are now out of harm’s way," the French minister said, whose services say that 50 of them are currently in administrative detention centers awaiting their expulsion, and 43 others are under house arrest.

And Gérald Darmanin added: "There are still more than a hundred foreigners in an irregular situation that we suspect of radicalization" in France.

He also said he hopes that his trip to Morocco, Tunisia, Algeria and Russia (the countries most represented among radicalized foreigners in an irregular situation in France) will "accelerate these expulsions". It should be noted that Gérald Darmanin traveled to each of these countries with a list of people to be expelled. This process has "already produced a certain number of results," he assured.

In total, Gérald Darmanin recalled that "more than 450" foreigners in an irregular situation, registered in the file of reports for the prevention of radicalization with a terrorist character (FSPRT), have been expelled from France since the beginning of the Macron quinquennium.