French authorities have officially banned the son of Osama bin Laden, the former head of the international terrorist organisation Al-Qaeda, Omar bin Laden, from entering the country, French Interior Minister Bruno Retailleau said on social network X on Tuesday.
The minister noted that Omar bin Laden had been living in the Orne department in northern France for several years until now as the spouse of a British citizen. However, French authorities had sought an order against him to leave the republic after he posted comments on his social media accounts last year advocating terrorism. After the courts upheld the legality of the request, the authorities secured his departure from France.
The administrative ban on entering France ensures that bin Laden cannot return to the country for any reason, Retailleau specified.
Osama bin Laden was the founder and former leader of the international Islamist terrorist organisation Al-Qaeda, which claimed responsibility for many major terrorist attacks, including the bombing of the twin towers in New York on September 11, 2001.
According to the official version of the US government, bin Laden was eliminated on May 2, 2011 as a result of a special operation, when he was in a villa in the city of Abbottabad in northwest Pakistan. Al-Qaeda confirmed this information.
