On Thursday, the Minister of Justice, Annelies Verlinden (CD&V), announced during a plenary session of the House that a law will be proposed to strengthen the legislation on the granting and withdrawal of Belgian nationality. “We are going to work on reinforced legislation,” she said in response to the questions of right-wing deputies Jeroen Bergers (N-VA), Georges-Louis Bouchez (MR) and Alexander Van Hoecke (Vlaams Belang) following the return to Belgium of Imam Mohamed Toujgani.
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Mohamed Toujgani arrived at Brussels-National Airport on Monday evening where a reception committee was waiting for him, the RTBF. Accused of radicalism and spying for the benefit of Morocco by the Belgian authorities, the former imam of the Al Khalil mosque in Molenbeek, the largest mosque in Belgium, had received an order to leave the territory three years ago. His supporters rather consider him as a moderate curator.
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Belgian justice had considered in 2021 that Mohamed Toujgani did not represent a threat to national security and that he could obtain Belgian nationality. A decision confirmed in cassation. Hence the return of the Moroccan imam. Belgian authorities refuse to comment on this news.
