Toulouse: Fettah Malki, the man who supplied the weapon to Mohamed Merah, will he be deported to Algeria?
Fettah Malki, convicted on appeal in 2019 for providing a weapon and bulletproof vest to Mohamed Merah who were used in the terrorist attacks in Toulouse and Montauban in March 2012, has finished serving his sentence at the Muret detention center. Released, he was then transferred to the Cornebarrieu administrative detention center with a view to deportation proceedings to Algeria.
After eight years in detention, Fettah Malki, 38, completed his sentence at the Muret detention center and was released at the end of August. This man was sentenced on appeal in 2019 by the Special Assize Court of Paris to ten years in prison for having provided a weapon that was used by Mohammed Merah during the terrorist attacks in Toulouse and Montauban in March 2012, attacks that have grounds the death of seven people including three children.
During his appeal trial, defended by Mes Franck, Martin, Me Etelin and Me Martial, Fettah Malki was found guilty of criminal association but the terrorist qualification was not retained by the court adopted in the first decision. After his detention, he was immediately transferred to the Cornebarrieu administrative detention center. “A first placement in the detention center is negotiated on his release from detention and there, it is a renewal for one month”, specifies one of his lawyers, Me Christian Etelin.
“Discarded from anything related to terrorism”
A decision that the lawyer considers incomprehensible. “During the appeal trial, he was excluded from anything related to and yet the administration of terrorism as such by sending him back to Algeria”.
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His lawyers lodged an appeal with the Paris administrative court, but the latter was rejected. “This man grew up in France. He was around ten years old when he arrived. His family, his partner, his children still live here,” his advice further notes. Fettah Malki indeed grew up in the district of Izards in Toulouse, where he has long rubbed shoulders with Abdelkader Merah, the brother of the terrorist, sentenced to thirty years of criminal imprisonment for complicity in assassination.
The Algerian authorities must decide on the situation of Fettah Malki. They have until the end of the month to send him, or not, a “laissez-passer” to his country of origin.