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The highest European court of human rights has ruled that France could proceed with the expulsion of an Algerian convicted of terrorist acts, thereby dismissing his claim that he would make the Subject of torture or inhuman treatment in his country.
The man, identified only as AM, legally lived in France when he was sentenced in 2015 to six years' imprisonment for conspiring to commit terrorist acts by providing money and money. night vision goggles to al-Qaeda jihadists in the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM).
He was also ordered to leave the country, which led him to seize the European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg, in eastern France.
But the judges concluded that there was "no serious and proven reason" that he was likely to be subjected to inhuman or degrading treatment during his detention by the Algerian authorities.
A court confirmed that it was the first time that he allowed the expulsion of a terrorist suspect in Algeria, where human rights groups accuse the government to have brutally repressed the Islamists since the bloody civil war in the country, in the 1990s.
Hate speech
"The situation in Algeria has changed since 2015" and the authorities "changed their practices," said the source, thus making possible the expulsions of European nations.
Last year, the court authorized France to expel a Salafist preacher from Marseille to Algeria after the closure of his mosque following accusations of hate speech, but this man was not sentenced for terrorism .
France has intensified its expulsions of radicalized foreigners in recent years after a wave of deadly jihadist attacks since 2015 that killed about 250 people.
… with AFP
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