ウサマ・ビンラディン容疑者息子の再入国認めず　フランス内相

【パリＡＦＰ＝時事】フランスのブリュノ・ルタイヨー内相は８日、国際テロ組織アルカイダの指導者だった故ウサマ・ビンラディン容疑者の息子オマル氏（４３）について、２０２３年に退去命令を受けるまで数年間在住していたフランスに戻ることを禁じる決定を下したと発表した。（写真は故ウサマ・ビンラディン容疑者の息子オマル氏）
　内相はＸ（旧ツイッター）で、オマル氏は「２０２３年にテロを擁護するコメントをＳＮＳに投稿した」と指摘。「その結果、（オマル氏が滞在していた）オルヌ県の知事がフランス領からの退去命令を出した」と説明した。
　その上で、「国家安全保障上の利益のために下されたこの決定の合法性を裁判所は認めている」とし、自身も「いかなる理由であっても」オマル氏の再入国を禁ずる命令に署名したと述べた。
　オマル氏は１９歳の時に父親の元を離れた。同氏の「芸術代理人」を名乗るパスカル・マルタン氏は、オマル氏は現在、カタールに住んでおり、心理的な問題を抱えていると主張。同氏の妻とマルタン氏は、今回の決定を知らせないことに決めたとしている。また、「ウサマ・ビンラディンの息子であることは彼にとって試練だった」とし、オマル氏は「テロの犠牲者」だと擁護した。【翻訳編集ＡＦＰＢＢＮｅｗｓ】
〔ＡＦＰ＝時事〕（2024/10/09-17:00）

Omar bin Laden, a son of slain Al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden, has been banned from returning to France where he made his home for several years before he was ordered to leave in 2023, France's Interior Minister announced Tuesday.
Born in Saudi Arabia, bin Laden has also lived in Sudan and Afghanistan. The 43-year-old settled in the northern French region of Normandy with his British wife several years ago, taking up painting.
France's new interior minister, Bruno Retailleau, said Omar bin Laden posted comments on his social networks in 2023 that advocated terrorism.
As a result, the prefect of Orne issued an order to leave French territory, Retailleau.
The courts have confirmed the legality of this decision taken in the interests of national security, he added on X. The minister also said he had signed off on a ban preventing Omar bin Laden from returning to France for any reason whatsoever.
Later Tuesday, the Orne prefecture in northern France said Omar bin Laden, a national of Qatar, had lived in the town of Domfront-en-Poiraie since 2018.
- 'Reprehensible comments' -
On the anniversary of Osama bin Laden's death in May 2023, comments that French officials say glorified terrorism and al Qaeda were published on social media in the name of Omar bin Laden, on an account that has now been suspended. A probe was launched in France.
While Omar bin Laden denied being the author of the reprehensible comments he did not delete or condemn them, the prefecture said. He was ordered to leave France on October 27, 2023 and did so voluntarily. He appealed the decision but a French court upheld the ruling last week.
He left his father at the age of 19.
Speaking to AFP in 2022, Omar bin Laden had said he felt good in France. I feel free from the responsibility of my father's actions, he said at the time. Nobody judges me, they respect me and they leave me in peace.
US special forces killed the Al-Qaeda leader in Pakistan in 2011.
Pascal Martin, who described himself as Omar's artistic agent, said bin Laden now lived in Qatar and suffered from psychological problems. Martin and Omar bin Laden's wife decided not to inform him of the announcement.
He's too fragile, if he finds out it's going to hurt him a lot, Martin told AFP. This decision is completely crazy, inconceivable, he added. He's had a difficult life, Martin said, describing him as the victim of terrorism. Being a son of Osama bin Laden has been an ordeal for him.
Martin also said his friend was not capable of advocating terrrorism or the September 11, 2001 attacks that killed nearly 3,000 people in the deadliest terrorist attack on US soil.
He says that his life stopped on that day, Martin said. In none of his statements did I hear him advocate terrorism.
- 'Misfortune' -
According to Martin, his friend was placed into police custody but then released, without any charge against him that I know of. He just has the misfortune of being a bin Laden, Martin added.
Another friend, Harry Atterton, said the decision was scandalous. Atterton, a 87-year-old Briton who also lives in Domfront-en-Poiraie, said Omar bin Laden had managed to separate himself from his father's ideology.
He described the man as slightly shy and generous, saying he did not talk much. There are thousands of potential terrorists who should leave France, but they chose Omar, added Atterton.
Omar bin Laden's marriage to British woman Jane Felix-Browne, a grandmother and over two decades his senior, had caused considerable media interest when it was confirmed in 2007. After marriage she took on the Muslim name of Zaina Mohammed.
Omar bin Laden sought to live in the UK, but his bid was rejected by the British authorities. Osama bin Laden, himself the son of a wealthy Saudi construction magnate, is believed to have had some two dozen children.
Retailleau has vowed to bring order on immigration and crime, insisting that the rule of law is neither intangible nor sacred.
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