Just arrived, already sent back. Ibrahim Godin, 21, didn’t like the treatment he received when he traveled to Dubai in the United Arab Emirates last May. Influencer followed by around 600,000 people on Snapchat and TikTok, tells how he was blocked at the entrance, immobilized for seven hours without eating or drinking in an office, before being escorted to a plane for France.
Expelled because gay?
Arrived from Lyon, with another influencer friend, he says he was the victim of “public defamation based on sexual orientation”. And for good reason, he suspects, at Dubai airport, the authorities would have mistaken him for a homosexual. You should know that the Emirates are one of the last 11 countries in the world where the death penalty is still possible for LGBTQI+ people.
Ibrahim Godin believes “It is not normal !” To our colleagues from franceinfohe explains:my passport was valid, I had done a PCR test, but a customs officer told me to go to the immigration office to obtain a visa“. And to add: “It’s stupid! When we deport someone, it’s because he’s dangerous or he’s not in order, not because he loves a woman or a man”.
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If he was given no explanation for this expulsion, the young man who filed a complaint on May 31, from Vesoul, his hometown, has a track. He reveals that on the way back, a policeman gave him some uplifting remarks. “He looked at me and he said, ‘the guy who was with you, wasn’t that your boyfriend?'” he reports.
“Dubai is not all pretty, all pink“
While an investigation is underway, Ibrahim Godin has already entered his social networks to “doing some prevention” on the subject. He wants his followers to know that “Dubai is not all pretty, all rosy as we see on social networks”.
Revelations that stain, a year after the three-part report that Marie had published infiltrates Dubai….
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