CERN physicist remains in French jail without charge
MAR 15, 2011
DOI: 10.1063/PT.5.025136
New York Times : In October 2009 Swiss police arrested Adlène Hicheur, a French-Algerian physicist at CERN, on suspicion of conspiring with al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb. Hicheur was handed over to authorities in France, where he remains in jail—14 months after his arrest and still without being charged with any crime. Under French law, terrorist suspects may be detained without charge for up to four years. Details about the possible case against Hicheur are meager. As the New York Times‘s Dennis Overbye reports, French police said at first that Hicheur had been in internet contact with al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb and that he was plotting to attack a military base in Annecy, France. In the meantime, while support for Hicheur’s release grows, French authorities have issued no further statements.
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