David_in_NYC
05-24-2004, 07:28 AM
http://www.brunei-online.com/bb/mon/may24w15.htm
LYON, France (AFP) - A Muslim cleric at the centre of a controversial French campaign against radical Islam returned to France on Saturday after being deported last month for publicly justifying wife-beating and polygamy.
Abdelkader Bouziane was handed a judge's summons as soon as he stepped off the plane in the southeastern city of Lyon from the capital of his native Algeria, police said.
"My client is delighted to be with his family once again and will wait calmly until his summoning before the judge to offer explanations", his lawyer Mahmoud Hebia said.
Bouziane, 52, was the first imam to be deported this year under an interior ministry directive to expel those who preach religious extremism.
The imam left Lyon airport Saturday by a side door, avoiding many reporters awaiting his arrival. He had been granted a visa to return on May 16.
LYON, France (AFP) - A Muslim cleric at the centre of a controversial French campaign against radical Islam returned to France on Saturday after being deported last month for publicly justifying wife-beating and polygamy.
Abdelkader Bouziane was handed a judge's summons as soon as he stepped off the plane in the southeastern city of Lyon from the capital of his native Algeria, police said.
"My client is delighted to be with his family once again and will wait calmly until his summoning before the judge to offer explanations", his lawyer Mahmoud Hebia said.
Bouziane, 52, was the first imam to be deported this year under an interior ministry directive to expel those who preach religious extremism.
The imam left Lyon airport Saturday by a side door, avoiding many reporters awaiting his arrival. He had been granted a visa to return on May 16.