TOULOUSE NEWS INFO. Arrested, the man who armed Mohammed Merah saved from expulsion … by the Covid
By Toulouse editorial staff
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A cumbersome symbol in the fight against Islamic terrorism. Sentenced to 10 years in prison on appeal, in 2019, for providing uzi pistol and bullet proof vest to Mohammad Merah, Fettah Malki was arrested and placed in the Cornebarrieu administrative detention center, near Toulouse, on Friday April 22, 2022, according to our information.
A cumbersome pariah
Some were moved that this 38 year old Algerian found himself free in the Pink City – after having served his sentence, editor’s note – even as the French presidents and rewarded, Emmanuel Macron and Isaac Herzog, commemorated the ten years of the Toulouse attacks. With as a high point, a ceremony, Sunday March 20, within the martyred Jewish school of Ohr Torah (formerly Ozar Hatorah), where jonathan sandlerhis two sons, Arie and Gabrielleand Myriam Monsonegofell under the bullets of the jihadist.
But if the criminal justice had it condemned to be expelled from the national territory at the end of his sentence, the thirty-something has since found himself at the heart of an administrative imbroglio. Algeria had at first refused to accept him on his floor. And Fettah Malki’s lawyer had filed several appeals before the administrative court against this expulsion.
Its contamination suspends the measurement
Decided by the prefect of Haute-Garonne, his arrest on Friday was to be followed by a “deportation to Algeria yesterday or today”, according to our sources. But a new setback would have come to pinch the machine. Fettah Malki would indeed contracted… Covid-19. Suspending the measure in force. For the time being, he therefore remains at the Cornebarrieu administrative detention center (CRA) (Haute-Garonne), near Toulouse.
For the record, in November 2021, Fettah Malki was arrested and then tried in immediate comparison by the Toulouse Criminal Court for not having did not respect his house arrest. He had been sentenced to three months in prison.
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