CEDH · PRESS;HEARINGS;ENG — 5 juillet 2000

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FRANCE   Wednesday 5 July 2000 at 9a.m.   The applicant   The case concerns an application brought by a Tunisian national, Nouri Maaouia, who was born in 1958 in Tunisia and lives in Nice.   Summary of the facts   Mr Maaouia entered France in 1980 and in 1992 married a French national, with whom he had been living since 1983. On 1 December 1988 Alpes-Maritimes Assize Court sentenced him to six years’ imprisonment for armed robbery and armed assault.   He was released on 14 April 1990. On 8 August 1991 the Minister of the Interior made a deportation order against him. He refused to travel to Tunisia and was prosecuted for refusing to comply with a deportation order. On 19 November 1992 Nice Criminal Court sentenced him to one year’s imprisonment and made an order excluding him from French territory for ten years.   In December 1992 the applicant sought to have the deportation order quashed and in a judgment of 14 February 1994 Nice Administrative Court quashed the deportation order of 8   August 1991.   On 12 August 1994 he applied to the Principal Public Prosecutor's Office at Aix-en Provence Court of Appeal on to have the exclusion order lifted. On 26 January 1998 the Court of Appeal granted that application and lifted the exclusion order on the ground that Nice Administrative Court had quashed the deportation order.   Complaint   The applicant complained that the proceedings which he had brought on 12 August 1994 to have the exclusion order lifted, and which had ended with the decision of the Aix-en-Provence Court of Appeal of 26 January 1998, had been unreasonably long, contrary to Article 6 § 1 of the European Convention on Human Rights.   Procedure   The application was lodged with the European Commission of Human Rights on 30   December 1997.   On 12 January 1999 the Chamber decided to adjourn the examination of the applicant’s complaint concerning the length of the proceedings for rescission of the exclusion order (Article 6 § 1 of the Convention) and to declare the remainder of the application inadmissible. On 1 February 2000 the Chamber decided to relinquish jurisdiction in favour of the Grand Chamber. On 22 March 2000 the Grand Chamber declared the remainder of the application admissible.       Composition of the Court   The case will be heard by the Grand Chamber composed as follows:   Luzius Wildhaber (Swiss), President , Elisabeth Palm (Swedish), Christos Rozakis (Greek), Jean-Paul Costa (French), Gaukur Jörundsson (Icelandic), Lucius Caflisch [1] (Swiss), Loukis Loucaides (Cypriot), Ireneu Cabral Barreto (Portuguese), Willi Fuhrmann (Austrian), Karel Jungwiert (Czech), Nicolas Bratza (British), Nina Vajić (Croatian), John Hedigan (Irish), Matti Pellonpää (Finnish), Tudor Panţîru (Moldovan), Kristaq Traja (Albanian), Anatoly Kovler (Russian), judges , Georg Ress (German), Egils Levits (Latvian), substitute judges , and also Michele de Salvia , Registrar .   Representatives of the parties   Government:   Ronny Abraham , Agent , Claire d’Urso, Pierre Boussaroque , Counsel ;   Applicant:   Alain Chemama , Counsel .   ***   After the hearing the Court will begin its deliberations, which are held in private. Judgment will be delivered at a later date.   Registry of the European Court of Human Rights F – 67075 Strasbourg Cedex Contacts:   Roderick Liddell (telephone: (0)3 88 41 24 92)   Emma Hellyer (telephone: (0)3 90 21 42 15) Fax: (0)3 88 41 27 91   The European Court of Human Rights was set up in Strasbourg in 1959 to deal with alleged violations of the 1950 European Convention on Human Rights. On 1 November 1998 a full-time Court was established, replacing the original two-tier system of a part-time Commission and Court. [1] Judge elected in respect of Liechtenstein.