US embassy cable - 05PARIS1711

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FRANCE: UPDATE ON TRANSFERRED GUANTANAMO DETAINEES

Identifier: 05PARIS1711
Wikileaks: View 05PARIS1711 at Wikileaks.org
Origin: Embassy Paris
Created: 2005-03-15 12:41:00
Classification: CONFIDENTIAL
Tags: PTER KTIA KAWC PHUM PINR OPDC PREL FR
Redacted: This cable was not redacted by Wikileaks.
This record is a partial extract of the original cable. The full text of the original cable is not available.


 
C O N F I D E N T I A L PARIS 001711 
 
SIPDIS 
 
STATE FOR S/WCI 
 
E.O. 12958: DECL: 03/14/2015 
TAGS: PTER, KTIA, KAWC, PHUM, PINR, OPDC, PREL, FR 
SUBJECT: FRANCE: UPDATE ON TRANSFERRED GUANTANAMO DETAINEES 
 
REF: STATE 45506 
 
Classified By: POLITICAL MINISTER COUNSELOR JOSIAH ROSENBLATT, FOR REAS 
ONS 1.4 B/D 
 
(C) Per reftel, Post lists the names and status of the seven 
French citizen ex-Guantanamo detainees transferred to French 
custody: 
 
-- Brahim Yadel, transferred to French custody on July 27, 
2004; Yadel has been charged with "terrorist conspiracy," 
which carries with it a maximum sentence of ten years.  He is 
currently in pretrial detention.  No date has been fixed for 
the trial, although we understand it may begin by late 
2005/early 2006. 
 
-- Mourad Benchellali, transferred to French custody on July 
27, 2004; Benchellali has been charged with "terrorist 
conspiracy," which carries with it a maximum sentence of ten 
years.  He is currently in pretrial detention.  No date has 
been fixed for the trial, although we understand it may begin 
by late 2005/early 2006. 
 
-- Nizar Sassi, transferred to French custody on July 27, 
2004; Sassi has been charged with "terrorist conspiracy," 
which carries with it a maximum sentence of ten years.  He is 
currently in pretrial detention.  No date has been fixed for 
the trial, although we understand it may begin by late 
2005/early 2006. 
 
-- Imad Kanouni, transferred to French custody on July 27, 
2004; Kanouni has been charged with "terrorist conspiracy," 
which carries with it a maximum sentence of ten years.  He is 
currently in pretrial detention.  No date has been fixed for 
the trial, although we understand it may begin by late 
2005/early 2006. 
 
-- Khaled Ben Mustafa, transferred to French custody on March 
7, 2005; Ben Mustafa has been charged with "terrorist 
conspiracy," which carries with it a maximum sentence of ten 
years.  He is currently in pretrial detention.  No date has 
been fixed for the trial, although we understand it may begin 
by late 2005/early 2006. 
 
-- Ridouane Khalid, transferred to French custody on March 7, 
2005; Khalid has been charged with "terrorist conspiracy," 
which carries with it a maximum sentence of ten years.  He 
was released on bail under judicial supervision March 12, 
although the GOF is appealing his release.  No date has been 
fixed for the trial, although we understand it may begin by 
late 2005/early 2006. 
 
-- Mustaq Ali Patel, transferred to French custody on March 
7, 2005; Patel (declared in February 2005 by the Department 
of Defense not to be an enemy combatant) was released from 
French custody on March 9.  No charges have been filed 
against him, and he is expected to return to the French 
island territory of Reunion, where his family lives. 
Leach 

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