France bans Osama bin Laden’s son from returning to country
ANKARA (AA) – France has banned the son of late Al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden from returning to the country.
Omar Bin Laden, who has been living in the northwestern department of Orne as the spouse of a British citizen for several years, made statements on social media in 2023 that were termed by the French as allegedly “glorifying terrorism,” Interior Minister Bruno Retailleau said on X, without providing details.
Bin Laden was then expelled, and the decision was approved by the French justice for “national security,” Retailleau explained.
The minister announced an “administrative ban from the territory,” and said his decision “ensures the impossibility” for Bin Laden to return to France “for any reason whatsoever.”
Omar Bin Laden, 43, settled in Orne in 2016 as a painting artist, according to the French daily Ouest-France. He voluntarily left France in 2023 after receiving an expulsion notification and went to Qatar, Ouest-France quoted the prefecture of Orne as saying.
Al-Qaeda leader Osama led violent resistance against the US for its interventionism in Muslim lands through direct occupation or neocolonial policies. Osama sought asylum in Afghanistan under the Taliban’s earlier stint in power, but escaped to Pakistan after the US occupied Afghanistan and launched a hunt for Osama.
Osama was killed in a night raid in Pakistan in 2011 by US forces. He allegedly helped plan the attacks of September 11, 2001, in New York which killed nearly 3,000 Americans.
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