Radicalized Moroccan Expelled from France After Threatening to Behead Gendarme

According to the revelations of Marianne, K., this young man was on the police watch list for his interests mainly oriented towards terrorism and weapons.

"I’m going to behead a gendarme’s head and put it in front of the store or in front of a gendarmerie." This threat made last April in a supermarket in Mandelieu-la-Napoule, in the Alpes-Maritimes, had earned him a police custody.

Before this incident at the supermarket, the young man had dealt with the police three times in a row in 2019, notes the weekly Marianne, referring to the case of the Cannes region, where the named K., standing on the roof of his car, had improvised a sermon in a djellaba in front of "stunned" employees of the Thalès company, specialized in armaments.

Still in 2019, but this time in October, he is arrested in possession of a bladed weapon. "At the police station, he attacks France, which he treats as a country of infidels, and French women, whom he considers immodest," reports the same source. The following month, the young man falls back into the hands of the police, this time with a cutter and cannabis. But he aggravates his case at the Nice prefecture when he lies about his administrative situation.

In April 2021, the police services will look into his case. An investigation opened by the Directorate General of Internal Security (DGSI) has shown that his interests revolve around terrorism and weapons. "The man has done internet searches to find out how to blow up a courthouse," informs the publication, which specifies that the prefecture and the Ministry of the Interior urgently signed an expulsion order to Morocco, his country of origin.

The man, held in an administrative detention center (CRA) in Nice, and who repeated "Allahu Akbar" and told the police he wanted to die a martyr, quickly appealed, which was quickly dismissed by the judge of freedoms and detention.

The weekly points out that this rare procedure applied to this young Moroccan targets only a few dozen individuals per year with a heavy criminal record. And this, according to Marianne, is due to the Ministry of the Interior’s desire to send strong signals on security and the expulsion of foreigners with a dangerous profile.