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Britain Extradites Man Convicted in France
2006-06-23
A man convicted in 2004 by a French court for his role in a plot to attack a crowded Christmas market on New Year's Eve 2000 was extradited Thursday from Britain, the Justice Ministry said. Rabah Kadri, sentenced in absentia to six years in prison, has the right to oppose the verdict in France and be retried or complete his prison term.

Kadri, of Algerian origin, was among 10 people, Algerian or French-Algerian, convicted in December 2004 in France for their roles in the plot to attack the market in the eastern French city of Strasbourg. Four others, also Algerians, were convicted in Germany in March 2003. All made up the so-called "Frankfurt group" -- named for the German city where the bomb plot was hatched. German police arrested four men, all Algerians, in Frankfurt in December 2000. The four were convicted in Germany in March 2003 and sentenced to 10 to 12 years in prison. Kadri was arrested in November 2002 in London and charged there with possessing material that could be used to commit terror attacks, then charged again in February 2003 for an alleged plot to concoct a chemical weapon.
Posted by:Fred

#3  Not exactly. When a person is arrested, police can keep him for 24 hours ((96 in terrorism or drugs investigation) before deferring him to the judiciary. But French judiciary is sloooooooooow. Slow as in trial delaying for years. If person is found guilty then the time spent in jail before trial is counted as serving sentence (ie sentenced to five yeasr but two years in jail before trial) then he will serve three additional years.

If he is found innocent or if there was a non-lieu (accusation does not have a sustainable case) then he has some possibilities of getting an indemnification.

I think the accused must be tried before for years or realeased but I am not sure of: haven't been in jail. :-)
Posted by: JFM   2006-06-23 14:46  

#2  Remember, while French prisons have a bit of a problem keeping people imprisoned, they are also acknowledged to be seriously unpleasant residences (worse than Guantanamo, was a recent evaluation). And I think (correction requested from JFM or anonymous5089, please) that the French authorities can also imprison arrestees and those currently on trial...for the duration. According to this article, the bad guyz caught in Germany were held for three years of trial time, then convicted and formally imprisoned. I imagine the French system is much the same...or worse.
Posted by: trailing wife   2006-06-23 08:36  

#1  Lemme get this straight- the guy plots mass murder and the French shake their tiny, ineffectual fists in the air and demand that he pay with six years in prison? And he has the right to make them try him all over again because he skipped out the first time?

Have our French allies lost all sense of self-preservation? I suppose its a little late to be shocked, but blowing folks up is serious business and they come after him like a petty thief. Mon dieu!
Posted by: Baba Tutu   2006-06-23 00:25  

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