ABSTRACT
Mr Mohamed Djeroud, an Algerian national born in Algeria in 1958, arrived in France the following year with his family. His mother and his six brothers and sisters, four of whom have French nationality, live in France. He was convicted of criminal offences on several occasions in 1977 and 1978. In February 1979 the Minister of the Interior ordered his deportation on the ground that he represented a danger to public order. He went to Algeria of his own accord in 1980 but returned to France in 1982, where he lived until 1985. He continued to commit further offences. He was deported in February 1985 and again in April 1987 but returned to France each time. In December 1987 he refused to board an aeroplane for Algeria, as a result of which he served a prison sentence in France. Since 1988 he had been the subject of a compulsory residence order confining him to a municipality near Paris, until he complied with the deportation order. Various attempts to secure the revocation of that order failed, as did an application for political asylum in 1987. Comm found by a majority (13-1) V 8, unanimously NV 3.
