Released from prison in April 2008, banned from entering France, this convicted person for a planned attack cannot be deported to Algeria due to the risk of torture that would weigh on him.
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On Monday March 11, the Council of State rejected an appeal from Kamel Daoudi, the longest-serving person under house arrest in France. This convict in a terrorism case has been maintained in this status for more than 15 years due to the impossibility of deporting him to Algeria, where he would risk torture.
In a ruling dated April 6, 2023, the Paris Court of Appeal rejected the request of Kamel Daoudi, who demanded the annulment of the orders setting the conditions of his house arrest. He then appealed to the Council of State to request the annulment of this judgment. In its decision on Monday, the Council of State underlines that “Mr. Daoudi’s appeal is not allowed.”
He cannot be deported to Algeria
In 2005, this Franco-Algerian was sentenced on appeal to six years in prison, the forfeiture of his French nationality and a permanent ban from the country for “criminal association in relation to a terrorist enterprise”.
An alleged member of an Islamist group affiliated with Al-Qaeda, he was suspected of having prepared an attack against the United States embassy in Paris in 2001. Despite the ban on staying in France, Kamel Daoudi, released from prison in April 2008, cannot be deported to Algeria due to the risk of torture he faces in this country.
He has therefore been the subject of successive house arrest orders for more than fifteen years. A status which forces him to go to the police station several times a day, to respect a curfew and to stay in his town of residence, Aurillac (Cantal). A summons “for life” which he denounces and which makes him, according to his supporters, the oldest under house arrest in France.