Jean Castex had made it a personal matter and completed this file before leaving Matignon.
The former Prime Minister worked on several occasions to bring about the expulsion of Fettah Malki to Algeria, his country of origin which he left when he was 10 years old.
And on May 3, less than a fortnight before his resignation, the man who received a ten-year sentence for having provided a submachine gun and a bullet-proof vest to the "scooter killer", Mohamed Merah, left the French territory indicates
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The latter, who has always denied knowing the murderous intentions of his childhood friend, was released last August after serving his sentence, before being placed in a detention center for the first time.
But his lawyers having lodged an appeal against the deportation procedure, he had been placed under house arrest.
An assignment that he had transgressed on November 16 by going to the Izards district, in Toulouse, to visit relatives.
Six days later, he was sentenced to three months in prison by the criminal court and locked up in the Seysses remand center.
Since then, the French authorities have stepped up to the plate on several occasions on the question of the return of nationals expelled to their country of origin, and of Fettah Malki in particular.
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