French Imam Sentenced to Prison for Aiding Illegal Border Crossings

Three years in prison, including one suspended, in addition to a ban on residence in the North and Pas-de-Calais, for five years. The sentence for which a 39-year-old imam residing in France, in fact a political refugee, was simply incarcerated, at the end of his trial at the Tribunal of Boulogne-sur-Mer, in the Pas-de-Calais.

As for his accomplice, a faithful of his mosque, he was sentenced to 18 months in prison, including 9 suspended, a sentence accompanied by three years of ban on residence in the same regions.

They are accused of regularly facilitating the journey from France, more precisely from La Manche, to England, of migrants, by selling these clandestine travelers inflatable boats; the investigations made it possible to discover that between December 2018 and April 2019, the two defendants had personally acquired no less than seven boats.