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"I can confirm that he was arrested today by the police," Belgian Justice Minister Vincent Van Quickenborne told AFP.
According to a French police source, he was arrested by the Belgian police "without incident". He was imprisoned in the evening in Tournai, a Belgian city near the French border, according to a source familiar with the matter.
Mr. Iquioussen's support committee said that its advice was "mobilized to obtain his release", in a statement posted on its Facebook page on Friday evening, along with a video of the preacher shot before his arrest.
Believing that the French Interior Ministry "fabulates", he indicates in this video that he has "confidence in justice".
The man born in France and of Moroccan nationality insisted that he was "French (...) in (his) head", and that he went abroad "because I was asked to leave my country", adding: "I did not wait for the minister to have fun by expelling me manu militari (...) in front of the cameras".
Not found since the green light from the Council of State for his expulsion at the end of August, the preacher was then the subject of a European arrest warrant issued by an investigating judge in Valenciennes (north), for "evading execution of a deportation decision".
The Minister of the Interior Gérald Darmanin announced at the end of July the expulsion of this preacher from the North, on file S (for state security) by the DGSI "for eighteen months", according to him.
The expulsion order accused him of "a proselytizing speech interspersed with remarks inciting hatred and discrimination and carrying a vision of Islam contrary to the values of the Republic".
The imam has since been at the heart of a legal imbroglio.
His lawyer, Me Lucie Simon, disputes in particular the validity of the arrest warrant targeting him, believing that it is based "on an offense" which is, according to her, "not constituted". "Why look for him? Why do you want to bring him back?", she wondered at the beginning of September.
- Legal disputes -
According to the French Ministry of the Interior, it is now up to the Belgian courts to hand over the person concerned to the French authorities in execution of the arrest warrant.
The procedure for handing over the imam to France could take several weeks if the person concerned objects to it.
Between legal quarrels and media battles, the debates around the imam fed French news in August. The announcement of her deportation to Morocco was followed by her suspension by the Paris administrative court, which ruled that she would cause "a disproportionate attack" on her "private and family life".
He had been splashed by a first controversy in 2004, pinned for remarks deemed anti-Semitic in a speech on Palestine. The person concerned later recognized "inappropriate comments" and apologized.
His name then reappeared regularly in the press and public debate.
His YouTube channel, where he delivers lessons and sermons on Islam in everyday life (poverty, violence, fulfillment in the couple, etc.), has 178,000 subscribers.
Born in France, he had decided when he came of age not to opt for French nationality. He claims to have given it up at the age of 17 under the influence of his father, and then to have tried in vain to recover it.
His five children and his 15 grandchildren are French and established in the North of France: one son is an imam in Raismes, another ex-elected PS in Lourches.
