(Radio France) An alleged Islamist terror plotter was freed in April because an investigating judge forget to renew his pretrial custody, France’s justice ministry has admitted after revelations in the press.
Oualid B walked out of preventive detention on 3 April despite the fact that he is one of the defendants in a case over an alleged planned terror attack in the Lyon area in 2014 and in a network to send fighters to Syria.
He has since been free but under “strict judicial control,” according to the ministry, which confirmed a story in the Canard Enchaîné weekly.
An internal inquiry has been ordered but, according to the paper, the judge refused to resign when asked to by his bosses.
