AA/Paris/Feïza Ben Mohamed
Franco-Moroccan political scientist Nabil Ennasri, indicted as part of an investigation into alleged financial offenses, was released from prison, Anadolu learned from his lawyer on Wednesday.
Released Tuesday evening after 15 months in detention, Nabil Ennasri was placed under judicial supervision pending a possible trial.
This judicial review includes several provisions including a ban on leaving the territory, a weekly reporting obligation and a ban on contacting the other protagonists in the case.
Contacted by Anadolu, his lawyer, Maître Nabil El Ouchikli, who had been fighting for months for the release of his client, said he was “relieved that Nabil Ennasri was able to find his loved ones” and recalled “that he would never have had to be separated from it.
Already last October, the council pointed to “unfair” and “dysfunctional” justice in this investigation and announced the filing of a request for dismissal, coupled with a request for disqualification of the investigating magistrate in charge of this thorny case.
“What distinguishes Nabil Ennasri from the others indicted? Is this the seriousness of the facts? Is it his personal situation? Is it the risk of flight? Is it the fantasy of his proximity to the Muslim Brotherhood? Is this the position he adopts in the file? Is this the obsession with Qatar by the investigating magistrates? » asked Master El Ouchikli.
According to the latter, Nabil Ennasri has collaborated with the investigators since the start of the investigation and has “as such made available to the justice system all the elements allowing to facilitate the investigations, given all the codes of his telephones and computer tools” then “answered in the context of four interrogations before the investigating judge to all of the facts with which he was accused, sometimes even on several occasions”.
Wishing to raise awareness about the case of his client, for which he affirmed that “justice is dysfunctional”, Maître El Ouchikli castigates “an incarceration that is unjustifiable neither factually nor legally which plunges his family and himself into a catastrophic human situation” and “a difference treatment which places Nabil ENNASRI in absolute incomprehension and which calls into question the very neutrality and impartiality of the judicial institution which constitute fundamental guarantees to which all litigant has the right.”
And to continue: “Above all, the relentlessness to which he is subjected continues over time to such an extent that his situation is an exception in this type of case. His pre-trial detention was renewed three times to exceed one year, which is exceptional and even never seen before in such a case.
As a reminder, incarcerated between October 4, 2023 and December 17, 2024, political scientist Nabil Ennasri, who was one of the influential voices of Muslims in France, is indicted in the context of a financial affair and suspected by the justice of “corruption and influence peddling”, “breach of trust” and “laundering of aggravated tax fraud” in an investigation linked to Qatar, and in which he is the only defendant to have been imprisoned even then that he is not the central character of the investigation.
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