Bercy and the Interior Ministry freeze Mohamed Hattay's assets for six months

The Minister of the Interior and the Minister of the Economy, Finance, and Industrial, Energy, and Digital Sovereignty have ordered the freezing, for a period of six months, of all funds and economic resources of Mohamed Hattay, born on November 8, 1991, in Strasbourg (67). The joint decree, signed on September 16, 2026, is published in the Official Journal of the French Republic on September 20, 2026, under the reference NOR : ECOT2624242A. The measure takes effect upon the publication of the extract in the Official Journal.

The measure is taken in application of articles L. 562-2 et seq. of the Monetary and Financial Code, which establish the national asset-freezing regime. This is a financial police measure decided by interministerial decree, and not a transposed international sanction. The text appeared in JORF No. 0220 of September 20, 2026.

A family precedent already targeted in August

The measure is part of a series of comparable decrees published in recent weeks. A decree dated August 12, 2026, had already frozen, for six months, the assets of Ali Hattay, born on March 6, 1990, in Strasbourg (67), under the same modalities and on the same legal basis; it appeared in JORF No. 0195 of August 22, 2026, under the reference NOR : ECOT2621964A.

Between August 12 and September 20, 2026, thirteen asset-freezing decrees of this type were recorded in the Official Journal, targeting natural persons or associative structures.

Scope of the freeze and prohibition of availability

The decree covers a scope extended beyond the targeted person alone:

• funds and economic resources that belong to, are owned, held, or controlled by Mohamed Hattay;
• those that belong to, are owned, held, or controlled by legal entities or any other entity themselves owned or controlled by the person concerned;
• those of entities acting knowingly on his behalf or on his instructions;
• the prohibition, for six months, of the direct or indirect availability and use of funds or economic resources for the benefit of this person and the entities they control, hold, or which act on their behalf.

Appeals available within two months

The text notifies the applicable means and deadlines for appeal:

• an administrative appeal addressed to the Minister of the Interior, Directorate of Public Liberties and Legal Affairs, Place Beauvau, 75800 Paris Cedex 08, or to the Minister of the Economy, Finance, and Industrial, Energy, and Digital Sovereignty, 139, rue de Bercy, 75572 Paris Cedex 12, teledoc 233, liste-nationale@dgtresor.gouv.fr;
• a contentious appeal before the Administrative Court of Paris, 7, rue de Jouy, 75181 Paris Cedex 04;
• deadline: two months from the notification of the decree.

For banks, payment institutions, and economic operators, publication in the Official Journal serves as the starting point for the freezing obligation: any transaction involving the targeted assets is prohibited for six months, and the burden of verification lies with the professionals subject to the anti-money laundering and countering the financing of terrorism framework. As the measure is limited to six months, any potential renewal must be the subject of a new decree published in the Official Journal.

Source : Official Journal of the French Republic, JORF No. 0220 of September 20, 2026, decree of September 16, 2026 implementing Articles L. 562-2 et seq. of the Monetary and Financial Code, NOR : ECOT2624242A.