The hearing was held behind closed doors on Thursday, in the midst of the trial of the 2015 attacks against Charlie Hebdo and Hyper Cacher, and the day before an attack in Paris - which could be qualified as terrorist -, in the presence of 'an unusual police device.
The summary judge of the Nantes administrative court upheld the house arrest of the Islamist Mohamed Achamlane, who had asked him for permission to leave his town of Bouguenais (Loire-Atlantique), near Nantes.
As a reminder, the leader of the Islamist movement Forzane Alizza ("The Riders of Pride") was sentenced in 2015 to nine years in prison by the Paris Criminal Court for "criminal association with a view to preparing a act of terrorism ”.
He was then accused of chants threatening to "scarring France", research on the Internet on the manufacture of explosives or "preparatory meetings" on "various projects including the kidnapping of a magistrate".
On September 18, 2020, the Ministry of the Interior renewed the house arrest that had been served on him when he left detention on December 31, 2019. He is simply authorized to leave Bouguenais for the sole needs of the company. transport which hired him, and was not to leave Loire-Atlantique.
Mohamed Achamlane wanted this authorization to now be extended to "the whole of the national territory" and that his obligation to check in every evening at 7 pm at the Bouguenais gendarmerie cease.
"His professional activity began on September 21, 2020, and the contract he signed provides for a mobility clause throughout the national territory," argued his lawyer.
“There is no serious reason to believe that his behavior would constitute a particularly serious threat to public order.
"Mohamed Achamlane's lawyer also considered that there was no evidence that his client was" usually "in contact" with terrorists or persons suspected of terrorism ".
"Pro-jihadist behavior"
But "it results [...] from the precise and detailed elements of a white note from the intelligence services [...] that Mr. Achamlane appeared, from the year 2010, deeply rooted in the jihadist movement", notes the judge. summary proceedings of the Nantes administrative court in its order.
“He founded and directed the pro-jihadist small group Forzane Alizza, and developed […] through this means a vast network throughout the national territory.
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The small group Forzane Alizza, dissolved by presidential decree in March 2012, is "a combat group calling for the establishment of the caliphate and the application of Sharia law in France", she recalls in passing.
"It follows from the same blank note that, during his detention, Mr. Achamlane continued to adopt pro-jihadist behavior and to maintain, in this context, relations to this end", further notes the judge.
“Before his release, he opposed his transfer to a radicalization support district.
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“It also emerges from the psychiatric expert's report of February 11, 2019 [...] that he presents a significant risk of recidivism, in a context of lack of evolution of his personality and of questioning of the facts for which he was condemned, ”she says.
The renewal of his house arrest in Bouguenais was moreover “justified by the existence of new elements”, and “in particular […] the circumstance, not seriously contested by Mr. Achamlane, that he had sought to obtain firearms in the spring of 2020, ”concludes the magistrate.
