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### Viewing cable 05PARIS1699, TWO EX-GTMO DETAINEES CHARGED WITH TERRORIST

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05PARIS1699 | 2005-03-14 17:05 | 2010-11-30 16:04 | SECRET | Embassy Paris

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    This record is a partial extract of the original cable. The full text of the original cable is not available.

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    SS E C R E T SECTION 01 OF 02 PARIS 001699

    SIPDIS

    STATE FOR EUR/WE, S/CT, AND S/WCI

    E.O. 12958: DECL: 03/13/2015
    TAGS: PGOV PREL FR PTER KJUS
    SUBJECT: TWO EX-GTMO DETAINEES CHARGED WITH TERRORIST
    CONSPIRACY BUT ONE ORDERED RELEASED ON BAIL

    REF: A. PARIS 1610

    ¶B. KUJAWINSKI-FRANCE DESK 3/11 E-MAIL

    Classified By: POLITICAL MINISTER-COUNSELOR JOSIAH ROSENBLATT, FOR REAS
    ONS 1.4 B/D

    ¶1. (S) Summary and comment: Ridouane Khalid and Khaled Ben
    Mustafa, two of the three ex-Guantanamo (GTMO) detainees
    returned to French custody on March 7, were formally placed
    under investigation on "terrorist conspiracy" charges March
    11 by terrorism investigating judges Jean-Louis Bruguiere and
    Jean-Francois Ricard. Later that evening, a "liberty and
    detention" judge upheld the terrorism judges' request that
    Ben Mustafa be sent to pretrial detention. Curiously, a few
    hours later on March 12, the same "liberty and detention"
    judge examined Ridouane Khalid's case and ordered him
    released pending trial. It is highly likely that the office
    of the Paris Prosecutor will appeal the judge's decision, but
    for the time being Khalid remains released on bail. The
    Khalid decision is the first setback for Judges Bruguiere and
    Ricard as they work on the "French detainees in Guantanamo"
    dossier. For the first time in this dossier, a defense
    lawyer won a victory for his client, a fact that would
    embolden the lawyers for the other five detainees still in
    pretrial detention. When reached March 14, Ricard (strictly
    protect throughout) told Poloff that he was not optimistic
    regarding the dossier. He said the "liberty and detention"
    judge's decision could impact the continued detention of the
    other five detainees. End summary and comment.

    ¶2. (S) Poloff spoke with Judges Bruguiere and Ricard on March
    10 regarding the three ex-GTMO detainees returned to French
    custody on Monday, March 7. They confirmed that on March 11,
    they would charge Ridouane Khalid and Khaled Ben Mustafa with
    "terrorist conspiracy," which carries with it a maximum
    sentence of 10 years. They also revealed that the cases
    against the two would be more difficult than for the four
    original detainees returned to France in the summer of 2004.
    Bruguiere said that the DST had not uncovered any substantial
    additional information during the interrogation of Khalid and
    Ben Mustafa, which contrasts with the new information they
    had garnered from the original four detainees during their
    initial interrogation. Ricard confirmed this, and added that
    both Khalid and Ben Mustafa did not have substantial records
    of involvement in Afghanistan, in contrast to the original
    four. Regarding Ben Mustafa, Ricard said they had
    comparatively little information, due largely to the fact
    that Ben Mustafa had "barely enough time to set down his
    suitcase in Afghanistan before 9/11." The French have a
    little more on Khalid, but only because he was known to
    French services as being active in underground Islamist
    circles in Paris as far back as 1998. For these reasons,
    both judges said they personally considered the cases against
    Khalid and Ben Mustafa more difficult to prosecute.

    ¶3. (S) Regarding the third detainee, Mustaq Ali Patel,
    Bruguiere confirmed March 10 that the French had no
    derogatory information against him, and for this reason, he
    was released on March 9 (reftel A). He also said that Patel
    has severe mental and physical problems, and Bruguiere
    believed these problems had been exacerbated during Patel's
    multi-year imprisonment in Guantanamo.

    ¶4. (S) Following the formal announcement of an investigation,
    Khalid and Ben Mustafa were brought before a "liberty and
    detention" judge whose role is to determine whether or not
    the defendant should be released on bail pending the trial or
    remanded to pretrial detention. Ben Mustafa went first and
    the judge ruled in favor of Bruguiere and Ricard's requests
    that he be kept in pretrial detention. Khalid went before
    the same judge a few hours later and, surprisingly, given the
    similarity of the cases against the defendants, the judge
    ordered Khalid released pending trial. According to the
    Saturday (March 12) edition of Le Monde newspaper, the judge
    said Khalid's long detention in Guantanamo and the fact that
    the other five ex-GTMO detainees were in pretrial detention
    minimized Khalid's flight risk.

    ¶5. (S) Judge Ricard's reaction March 14 reflected his
    surprise with the decision; "Don't ask me for explanations
    (for the judge's decision) because I don't have any. The
    (liberty and detention) judge's reasoning makes no sense."
    Ricard said he had been unsure of the two cases against
    Khalid and Ben Mustafa, but expected nonetheless that the
    judge would either approve the detention of both or reject
    the detention of both. Ricard said there were few
    differences in the cases against Khalid and Ben Mustafa.
    However, he speculated that the following three issues may
    have influenced the judge to order Khalid's release: 1)
    Khalid's lawyer, Paul-Albert Iweins, is a former president of
    the Paris Bar and as such, is extremely skilled and
    reputable. This probably had a significant influence on the
    "liberty and detention" judge, said Ricard. 2) Khalid is
    hepatitis-C positive and this, combined with other more minor
    medical issues, may have decreased the judge's fear that
    Khalid was a flight risk; and 3) Khalid was less talkative
    during the DST's interrogation, said Ricard, which made
    compiling a dossier against him significantly more difficult.

    ¶6. (S) Moving forward, Ricard said it was probable that the
    Paris Prosecutor's office, upon recommendation of the
    terrorism investigating judges, would appeal Khalid's release
    this week. In addition, Ben Mustafa's lawyer has filed two
    separate appeals for his release, one of which will be heard
    this week, and the other shortly thereafter. Ricard said the
    appeals were based largely on the fact that the cases against
    Ben Mustafa and Khalid were similar. The lawyer will argue,
    said Ricard, that if Khalid was released, Ben Mustafa must be
    released as well. Ricard said that the other four ex-GTMO
    detainees in pretrial detention since summer 2004 would
    undoubtedly resubmit petitions for their release based on the
    success of Khalid's lawyer.

    ¶7. (S) Comment: In our dealings with Ricard and Bruguiere on
    the Guantanamo detainees issue, Ricard has consistently
    evinced more uncertainty and his reaction to this first
    setback demonstrates that. The fact that the "liberty and
    detention" judge allowed bail for one defendant and not the
    other suggests that incarceration in Guantanamo was not a
    decisive factor in deciding pretrial detention. Ricard and
    Bruguiere remain determined to pursue charges against six of
    the seven GTMO detainees, although there is little doubt that
    their defense lawyers will redouble their efforts to obtain
    bail for the other detainees as a result of the "liberty and
    detention" judge's decision. End comment.
    Leach
    T ONE ORDERED RELEASED ON...

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