The Paris sentencing court decided on Monday to maintain the home detention of Jean-Marc Rouillan, co-founder of the far-left armed group Action Direct.
The anti-terrorist prosecution (Pnat) asked for his imprisonment, due to a possible breach of his obligations.
Jean-Marc Rouillan's lawyer, Me Jean-Louis Chalanset, had denounced a "relentlessness bordering on ridicule", evoking "two ridiculous failures: the first time, the electronic bracelet was damaged, he did not realize it. account.
The second, he has eight witnesses who saw the bracelet fall ”.
Contacted Monday by AFP, he had not yet commented on this decision.
Jean-Marc Rouillan has been serving a sentence of eighteen months in prison since July, eight of which were closed for “apologizing for terrorism”.
On February 23, 2016, during the recording of a radio program, he had declared: "I found them very courageous, in fact", about the jihadists who had struck France in 2015.
On parole since 2012
"They fought courageously: they fight in the streets of Paris" while they "know that there are 2,000 or 3,000 cops around them", he had launched, while saying he was hostile to the “reactionary” ideology of the jihadists.
In this case, he was convicted in May 2017 on appeal, a conviction that became final in November 2018 after the rejection of a cassation appeal.
Arrested in 1987, Jean-Marc Rouillan, sentenced twice to life imprisonment for the assassinations of arms engineer René Audran in 1985 and of Renault CEO Georges Besse in 1986, spent twenty-four years in prison, including more seven in solitary confinement, before obtaining parole in 2012. Jean-Marc Rouillan was the last member of the hard core of Direct Action to regain freedom.
