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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.