Prime Minister Rejects Frenchman's Deportation Appeal
French national Kevin Dimino, owner of Samui Exotic Park on Koh Samui, has lost his appeal against a deportation order after Prime Minister Anutin rejected his case citing alleged incidents including assault, harassment, and inflammatory so
Prime Minister Anutin Charnvirakul has rejected an appeal by French national Kevin Dimino against a deportation order, according to a letter from the Office of the Prime Minister dated 23 September 2026 and sent to the permanent secretary of the Interior Ministry.
The Interior Ministry issued the deportation order on 7 September under the Deportation Act of 1956, citing conduct allegedly contrary to public order, good morals, and public welfare. Dimino subsequently appealed to the prime minister seeking to have the order revoked or suspended, but the appeal has now been rejected.
According to the Interior Ministry's report, Dimino, a French national and owner of Samui Exotic Park on Koh Samui, was involved in six alleged incidents. These included allegations of harassing and verbally abusing staff at a language school, assaulting a Turkish national with a knife threat, behaving aggressively outside private property, assaulting a foreign tourist and threatening the tourist's family, posting social media messages that the ministry said could incite division along racial, religious, and political lines, and threatening passengers on a domestic flight before being removed by police.
The prime minister has instructed the Interior Ministry to inform Dimino of the decision and notify him that he may challenge the deportation order before the Administrative Court.
