A 27-year-old French-Iranian, accused of being the author of the fatal attack committed on December 2, 2023 near the Eiffel Tower, was stripped of his French nationality, through a decree published on Friday, October 4 in Official Gazette. this is the 23rdmy confiscation since the beginning of the year.
Armand Rajabpour-Miyandoab, born in 1997 in Neuilly-sur-Seine (Hauts-de-Seine), killed a young German-Filipino tourist with a knife and injured two other people on the afternoon of Saturday, December 2, near the Pont de Bir Hakeim. Arrested shortly after the events, the man, known for his radical Islam and psychiatric disorders, was charged with murder and attempted murder, in connection with a terrorist enterprise and with legal recidivism, as well as association with criminal terrorist offenders and placed in preventive detention. judicial detention.
Two disqualifications appeared on Friday, that of Armand Rajabpour-Miyandoab and that of another 27-year-old man. Official Gazette the day after the confiscation of another 41-year-old dual national. In 2023 there were eleven. “Since 2019, 50 nationality deprivations have been taken. These measures only referred to people who had been convicted of a crime or offense constituting an act of terrorism.according to data from Place Beauvau.
The loss of nationality falls within a very precise legal framework, with application cases directly related to the fight against terrorism, in particular following judicial decisions after the 2015 attacks, the Ministry of the Interior specifies. The confiscation only affects French people by acquisition and not nationals by birth.
