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PARIS (AP) — France’s interior minister said Tuesday he has
taken additional steps against any effort by one of the sons of
al-Qaida leader Osama bin Laden to return to France.
Omar bin Laden had been living in France’s Normandy region but
left the country in October 2023 after French authorities
withdrew his residency papers and ordered him out, the Interior
Ministry said. At the time, authorities also barred him from
returning to France for two years, the ministry added.
In a post Tuesday on the social media platform X, French
Interior Minister Bruno Retailleau said he imposed an additional
ban to ensure that Omar bin Laden “will not be able to return to
France for any reason whatsoever.”
French daily Le Parisien reported that Omar bin Laden now lives
in Qatar.
It said he had previously been living since 2016 in the Orne
region of Normandy with his British wife and had been working as
an artist. The newspaper said that last week he lost a legal
battle to overturn the ban on him returning to France.
Retailleau said French authorities had ordered him out of the
country for social media posts deemed sympathetic of terrorism.
His father Osama bin Laden, mastermind of the Sept. 11, 2001
attacks, was killed in a U.S. commando operation by U.S. Navy
SEALs in 2011 in Pakistan.
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