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The Interior Minister of France has revealed on Tuesday that he has taken additional steps against any effort by one of the sons of al-Qaida leader Osama bin Laden to return to France.
Omar bin Laden had been living in France’s Normandy region but left the country in October 2023 after French authorities withdrew his residency papers and ordered him out, the Interior Ministry said. At the time, authorities also barred him from returning to France for two years, the ministry added.
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In a post Tuesday on the social media platform X, French Interior Minister Bruno Retailleau said he imposed an additional ban to ensure that Omar bin Laden “will not be able to return to France for any reason whatsoever.”
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French daily Le Parisien reported that Omar bin Laden now lives in Qatar.
It said he had previously been living since 2016 in the Orne region of Normandy with his British wife and had been working as an artist. The newspaper said that last week he lost a legal battle to overturn the ban on him returning to France.
Retailleau said French authorities had ordered him out of the country for social media posts deemed sympathetic of terrorism.
His father Osama bin Laden, mastermind of the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks, was killed in a U.S. commando operation by U.S. Navy SEALs in 2011 in Pakistan.
In another news, the Republican presidential candidate, Donald Trump, drew fierce criticism Monday for suggesting that undocumented immigrants bring “defective genetic traits” into the United States, further entrenching his hardline stance on migration and its perceived impact on American society.
Trump took aim at Vice President Kamala Harris in a radio interview, highlighting alarming figures that indicate thousands of immigrants convicted of homicide are living freely in the US, rather than being detained by federal immigration authorities.
“You know now, a murderer — I believe this — it’s in their genes. We’ve got a lot of bad genes in our country right now,” former president Trump told conservative host Hugh Hewitt.
Trump’s inflammatory statements drew swift censure from the White House, which condemned the remarks as “odious” and “inexcusable”. This forceful rejection highlighted the administration’s dedication to promoting tolerance.
