SELMOUNI v. FRANCE JUDGMENT 3 6. In accordance with the President’s decision, a hearing took place in public in the Human Rights Building, Strasbourg, on 18 March 1999. There appeared before the Court: (a) for the Government Mr J.-F. DOBELLE, Deputy Director of Legal Affairs, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Agent, Mrs M. DUBROCARD, Assistant Director of Human Rights, Legal Affairs Department, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Mrs F. DOUBLET, Head of the Comparative and International Law Office, Civil Liberties and Legal Affairs Department, Ministry of the Interior, Mr J.-C. MULLER, Department of Criminal Affairs and Pardons, Ministry of Justice, Advisers; (b) for the applicant Mrs M.-A. CANU-BERNARD, of the Paris Bar, (c) for the Commission Mr D. ŠVÁBY, Counsel; Delegate. The Court heard addresses by Mr Šváby, Mrs Canu-Bernard and Mr Dobelle. THE FACTS 7. Mr Selmouni, a Netherlands and Moroccan national, was born in 1942 and is currently in prison in Montmédy (France). A. The origin and the filing of the complaint 8. On 20 November 1991 the police arrested Géray Tarek, Dominique Keledjian and Mr Keledjian’s girlfriend in connection with a drug-trafficking investigation, on the instructions of Mr de Larosière, an investigating judge at the Bobigny tribunal de grande instance. Dominique Keledjian made a voluntary statement, telling the police that he had bought his heroin in Amsterdam from a certain “Gaby”, who had helped him conceal it in order to bring it into France over a number of trips. He