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Osama bin Laden's son deported from France

Interior minister Bruno Retailleau said he had signed an order banning Omar Binladin and barring him from returning after the latter posted comments on social media deemed to have glorified terrorism.

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A son of Al Qaeda founder Osama bin Laden has been deported from France, where he lived for years painting landscapes in a Normandy village, and barred from returning after posting comments on social media deemed to have glorified terrorism, reports US News & World Report.

Interior minister Bruno Retailleau said he had signed an order banning Omar Binladin from France, and that Binladin had previously been deported.

He gave no details about the timing of the deportation or where Binladin had been sent.

"Mr Binladin, who has lived in the Orne region for several years as the spouse of a British national, posted comments on his social networks in 2023 that glorified terrorism," Retailleau said on X.

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