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### Viewing cable 06PARIS2069, UPDATE/FAREWELL FROM TERRORISM INVESTIGATING JUDGE

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06PARIS2069 | 2006-03-30 13:39 | 2010-11-30 16:30 | SECRET | Embassy Paris

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    S E C R E T SECTION 01 OF 02 PARIS 002069

    SIPDIS

    SIPDIS

    E.O. 12958: DECL: 03/29/2016
    TAGS: PTER PREL PGOV FR IZ MO AG TS LY KISL
    SUBJECT: UPDATE/FAREWELL FROM TERRORISM INVESTIGATING JUDGE

    REF: A. 05 PARIS 7528 AND PREVIOUS
    ¶B. 01/11/06 PARIS POINTS

    PARIS 00002069 001.2 OF 002

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

    ¶1. (S) Summary: Jean-Francois Ricard, terrorism investigating
    judge for 12 years and deputy to renowned investigating judge
    Jean-Louis Bruguiere, is being promoted and transferred to
    the Ministry of Defense to work as chief magistrate for
    military penal affairs. Speculation abounds that Ricard is
    being groomed to replace Bruguiere, who is nearing the
    mandatory French civil service retirement age of 65. In a
    March 28 meeting with poloff, Ricard discussed a range of C/T
    issues, including the "jihadists to Iraq" investigation, the
    Christian Ganczarski case and the conclusion of the ex-GTMO
    detainees investigation. End summary.

    --------------------------------------------- ---
    CHANGES AMONG THE TERRORISM INVESTIGATING JUDGES
    --------------------------------------------- ---

    ¶2. (S) Ricard described his new position at the Ministry of
    Defense as advisor on military jurisprudence and informal
    advisor on C/T matters to Defense Minister Alliot-Marie, with
    the title of "magistrate general." He also plans on
    continuing in an informal advisory role with the terrorism
    section of the Paris Prosecutor's office. Ricard said it was
    possible he would return in two to three years to take
    Bruguiere's position. Leaving for a higher-level position,
    as is the case for his new job at the Ministry of Defense, is
    a prerequisite to being eligible for Bruguiere's job.

    ¶3. (S) When asked whether his replacement would be one of the
    recently hired terrorism investigating judges, Ricard said
    no. His replacement would likely be someone more senior who
    already has the confidence of the DST, RG and DGSE
    intelligence agencies. Ricard explained that the specificity
    of a veteran terrorism judge like himself or Bruguiere is
    that they are shown all manner of raw intelligence, even that
    which can never be included in judicial investigations.
    Being trusted by the intelligence agencies with this type of
    information is a slow process, said Ricard. As an example,
    he said it was only after five years as a terrorism
    investigating judge that the intelligence agencies allowed
    him to see the full scope of raw intelligence. Of all the
    terrorism investigating judges in the Paris Prosecutor's
    office, only he and Bruguiere are given this latitude, said
    Ricard. Relationships within the French intelligence and C/T
    world evolve slowly.

    ¶4. (S) Ricard confirmed that Bruguiere was seeking a position
    in a future Sarkozy administration, either as Minister of
    Interior or deputy Minister of Interior. Traditionally, such
    positions are given to elected officials (with the notable
    exception of current PM Villepin), and therefore Bruguiere
    will likely run as a UMP candidate for deputy in the third
    district of Lot-et-Garonne (southwest France) in the June
    2007 legislative elections (ref B).

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    "JIHADISTS TO IRAQ"
    -------------------

    ¶5. (S) Ricard said the open-ended dossier on "jihadists to
    Iraq" continued to dominate the workload of the terrorism
    investigating judges. Within the dossier are four separate
    investigations, and interest among French Islamic radicals in
    fighting "jihad" in Iraq continues. Recently, Ricard said he
    had questioned a suspect in one of the investigations who had
    converted to Islam in prison, and upon his release, was
    focused on leaving for Iraq. Iraq has begun to overshadow
    the Israel-Palestinian conflict as the obsession for many
    Muslim prisoners, said Ricard.

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    EX-GTMO DETAINEES
    -----------------

    ¶6. (S) Ricard confirmed that the investigation of the six
    ex-GTMO detainees was finished, and the Paris Prosecutor will
    likely charge all of them with "terrorism conspiracy."
    Although the maximum prison term is ten years, Ricard did not
    believe that any of the six would be given the maximum. The
    investigating judges had successfully kept the Guantanamo
    issue out of the actual case files, but it would be
    impossible for the judges issuing the sentences not to take

    PARIS 00002069 002.2 OF 002

    into account the detainees' previous imprisonment at
    Guantanamo, said Ricard. He considered only two of the
    detainees - Khaled Ben Mustafa and Redouane Khalid - to be
    serious threats. Ricard added that he and Bruguiere had
    fought to keep Ben Mustafa and Khalid imprisoned, but the
    length of their pretrial detention, coupled with their
    detention at Guantanamo, had swayed the "liberty and
    detention" judge to release them on bail. The trial of the
    six ex-GTMO detainees should begin in mid-May, said Ricard.
    Only one detainee, Brahim Yadel, is still in prison.

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    THE INVESTIGATION OF CHRISTIAN GANCZARSKI
    -----------------------------------------

    ¶7. (S) German convert Christian Ganczarski and Moroccan
    national Karim Mehdi were arrested in 2003 and since then
    have been in French custody under suspicion of having ties
    with al-Qaeda. Their investigation continues, but Ricard
    said he is convinced that Ganczarski was aware of the
    planning for the 9/11 attacks. He mentioned a video he had
    seen showing Osama bin Laden lecturing, Ganczarski listening
    to bin Laden in the front row and Mohammed Atta, one of the
    9/11 hijackers, right behind him. Ganczarski refuses to talk
    at all, said Ricard. "In another time, he would've been an
    SS general," Ricard added.

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    TUNISIA, GICM AND LIBYA
    -----------------------

    ¶8. (S) In other updates, Ricard said intelligence-sharing
    relationships recently had become strained between Tunisia
    and France. The strain originated on the Tunisian side, said
    Ricard, and he assumed that it was due to political
    calculations. (Comment: Since a FM Douste-Blazy visit to
    Tunis last fall, the GOF has become more outspoken on human
    rights in Tunisia, though still much less so than the U.S.
    End comment.) Regarding the Moroccan terrorist group GICM,
    Ricard said investigations into a GICM cell discovered in
    2005 were wrapping up, and he expected those arrested to go
    to trial in September. Finally, the GOF had picked up some
    signs that small terrorist groups made up of individuals from
    North Africa are quietly using Libya as a training base, said
    Ricard. He speculated that the Libyan intelligence services
    are generally aware of this and working to disrupt them, but
    said it would likely be difficult to do so given that the
    groups are very small.

    ¶9. (U) Tripoli minimize considered.
    Please visit Paris' Classified Website at:
    http://www.state.sgov.gov/p/eur/paris/index.c fm

    Stapleton

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