{"id":15104,"date":"2026-05-15T20:33:16","date_gmt":"2026-05-15T20:33:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/15104\/"},"modified":"2026-05-15T20:33:16","modified_gmt":"2026-05-15T20:33:16","slug":"palestinian-activist-ramy-shaath-faces-deportation-from-france","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/15104\/","title":{"rendered":"Palestinian activist Ramy Shaath faces deportation from France"},"content":{"rendered":"

Palestinian activist Ramy Shaath<\/a> is facing deportation from France<\/a> after authorities deemed his presence a “serious threat to public order”, his lawyer told AFP on Friday.<\/p>\n

Shaath, 54, was a prominent figure of the 2011 uprising in Egypt<\/a> and the coordinator of the country’s chapter of the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) movement against Israel<\/a>.<\/p>\n

He spent 900 days in detention in Egypt<\/a> between 2019 and 2022 before he was released and allowed to leave for France<\/a>, a decision French President Emmanuel Macron<\/a> welcomed at the time.<\/p>\n

“The Nanterre prefecture has notified us that it intends to initiate deportation proceedings,” Shaath’s lawyer, Damia Taharraoui, said, referring to the western Paris<\/a> suburb.<\/p>\n

The prefecture’s notice, seen by AFP, cites his links to “figures of the Palestinian cause in France” and organisations including Urgence Palestine\u00a0\u2013 which he co-founded after Hamas<\/a>‘s October 7, 2023 attack<\/a>\u00a0on Israel triggered the Gaza war<\/a> \u2013 as grounds for opening deportation proceedings.<\/p>\n

The notice also points to “repeated controversial actions and remarks” allegedly made during public appearances, including at a November 2023 protest in Paris, where he denounced what he called “Israel’s criminal occupation of Gaza” and referred to “Israeli ‘terrorists’ who bomb houses and hospitals”.<\/p>\n

An investigation into the offence of “defending terrorism” opened over the remarks was closed in October 2024.<\/p>\n

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He is to appear before a deportation committee on May 21 after which the prefecture “may immediately issue a deportation order that can be enforced at any time”, Taharraoui said.<\/p>\n

“He cannot be deported to Egypt<\/a>, because he no longer holds Egyptian nationality, nor to Palestine, because the country is at war,” the lawyer added.<\/p>\n

For his part, Shaath said he had attended several demonstrations calling for “an immediate ceasefire<\/a>, an end to the genocide<\/a>, sanctions, arms embargoes and international action” against Israel.<\/p>\n

“My stance has never changed since the time France worked to secure my release from Egyptian prisons where I was a political prisoner … but today, it seems they want to silence me,” he told AFP.<\/p>\n

Contacted by AFP, the Nanterre prefecture and the Interior Ministry did not immediately respond.<\/p>\n

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