Alexander Djouhri’s house arrest obliges the Franco-Algerian businessman to remain in France despite the temporary release requested by his lawyer
Alexander Djouhri’s house arrest obliges the Franco-Algerian businessman to remain in France despite the temporary release requested by his lawyers.
The Justice Department on Monday refused to lift house arrest for Alexandre Djouhri, the protagonist at the center of an investigation into suspected Libyan financing of Nicolas Sarkozy’s 2007 campaign, so he could undergo medical tests in Switzerland, it said it had learned from multiple sources.
The Paris Court of Appeal’s inquiry panel upheld the refusal of investigating judges to lift a measure committing the Franco-Algerian businessman to stay in France, according to a judicial source and one of his lawyers, Me Jean-Marc Delas.
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She also appointed a doctor to examine the health of Alexander Djouhri, 61, who suffers from heart problems. “It is always the same cruel and inhumane treatment meted out to Djouhri by the justice system,” said Ms. Delas.
Audited on January 31 and imprisoned in Fresnes prison (Val-de-Marne), he was released on an electronic bracelet on March 16, while several inmates tested positive for Covid-19 in the penal institution. But his lawyers have asked for a temporary permit for his residence so he can go to Switzerland for medical examinations carried out by a “multidisciplinary team”.
“Covid-19 is an international virus”
During a hearing before the board of education, his other lawyer, Pierre Cornut-Gentille, said it was “a matter of a heart transplant” and that he had been diagnosed with “cirrhosis of the liver”.
“There is no multidisciplinary team in Paris that can take responsibility without risking getting infected with Covid,” he pleaded. “Covid-19 is an international virus,” noted the state attorney general, who believed that he could be medically cared for in Paris.
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Appeared at the center of the conflict of suspects between Libya’s Muammar Gaddafi and those close to Nicolas Sarkozy, Alexandre Djouhri was accused of nine counts, including “active corruption”, “complicity and concealment of the diversion of public funds” as well as “money laundering of organized groups” of these crimes.
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Alexandre Djouhri was arrested in January 2018 in London under European arrest warrants issued by the French judiciary, the validity of which he disputes. Before his arrest, he was in Geneva, a series of heart attacks forced him to be hospitalized in the British capital, then under house arrest, before he was finally extradited.
Date of update: May 21, 2020, 3:59 p.m
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