Overview

• On August 9, Boualem Bensaïd’s lawyer filed a formal request for house arrest at his residence pending the delivery of an Algerian laissez-passer.
• A July 10 ruling by the Paris Court of Appeal granted his release from August 1 on condition of expulsion to Algeria, but he remains incarcerated at the Ensisheim penitentiary.
• A laissez-passer request sent to Algeria’s Strasbourg consulate on July 31 has received no response during a diplomatic standoff that has halted bilateral judicial cooperation for over a year.
• His defense argues that continued detention violates French law on conditional release of foreign nationals and invokes the CESEDA to justify provisional house arrest.
• Foreign Minister Jean-Noël Barrot has publicly urged Algeria to accept Bensaïd’s transfer, calling on it to fulfill its treaty obligations.