Facts
A., an Algerian national, filed an asylum application in 2008, which was rejected. He was subsequently convicted in several criminal cases and was judicially expelled by the Geneva Police Court in 2018 for a duration of 5 years. Following this judicial expulsion, the administrative authority ordered his administrative detention for a period of 6 months to ensure his removal from Switzerland.Considerations
The Federal Court ruled that the administrative detention ordered following the judicial expulsion did not accumulate with the previous detentions decided in the context of the asylum procedure, insofar as a significant delay (10 years) had elapsed between the two procedures. Thus, a new legal period of 6 months provided for in Art. 79 FNIA could run for the…