PARIS — France’s inside minister mentioned Tuesday he has taken further steps towards any effort by one of many sons of al-Qaida chief Osama bin Laden to return to France.
Omar bin Laden had been residing in France’s Normandy area however left the nation in October 2023 after French authorities withdrew his residency papers and ordered him out, the Inside Ministry mentioned. On the time, authorities additionally barred him from returning to France for 2 years, the ministry added.
In a put up Tuesday on the social media platform X, French Inside Minister Bruno Retailleau mentioned he imposed an extra ban to make sure that Omar bin Laden “will be unable to return to France for any purpose in any respect.”
French each day Le Parisien reported that Omar bin Laden now lives in Qatar.
It mentioned he had beforehand been residing since 2016 within the Orne area of Normandy along with his British spouse and had been working as an artist. The newspaper mentioned that final week he misplaced a authorized battle to overturn the ban on him returning to France.
Retailleau mentioned French authorities had ordered him in a foreign country for social media posts deemed sympathetic of terrorism.
His father Osama bin Laden, mastermind of the Sept. 11, 2001 assaults, was killed in a U.S. commando operation by U.S. Navy SEALs in 2011 in Pakistan.