The Court of Cassation ratified Wednesday, November 30 the sentence on appeal to four months in prison of the Algerian Kamel Daoudi for non-compliance with his conditions of house arrest.
Kamel Daoudi, sentenced in 2005 for terrorism, has been under house arrest in France for more than fourteen years, which makes him, according to his supporters, the oldest under house arrest in France.
He had lodged an appeal in cassation against a judgment of the Court of Appeal of Riom (Puy-de-Dôme) sentencing him to four months in prison for not having respected the conditions of his summons.
The Court of Cassation "
finds that there is, in this case, no means of such a nature as to allow the admission of the appeal
" and "
declares the appeal not admitted
", in a decision transmitted to AFP.
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Sentenced in 2005 on appeal to six years in prison and a permanent ban from the territory for "
criminal association in connection with a terrorist enterprise
", this 47-year-old former computer engineer was stripped of his French nationality.
He was a member of an Islamist group affiliated with Al-Qaeda, suspected of having prepared an attack against the United States embassy in Paris.
Released from prison in April 2008, banned from France, Kamel Daoudi is however not deportable to Algeria given the risk of torture incurred.
He has therefore been the subject of successive house arrest orders for more than fourteen years, a “
life
” assignment that he denounces.
Faced with this situation which forces him to clock in several times a day, Kamel Daoudi has made several requests to lift his definitive ban on French territory.
At the end of September 2021, he was arrested in an alternative café in Aurillac, where he was preparing meals, for not having respected the hours of his assignment which imposed a curfew between 9 p.m. and 7 a.m.
He was initially sentenced to one year in prison by the court in Aurillac, the city where he was under house arrest.