urt. His lawyer observed that the applicant was assured of work and accommodation on his release and that the most recent psychiatric report submitted by a panel of experts on 4 October 1999 had concluded that nothing stood in the way of his release on licence as there no longer appeared to be any risk of his reoffending. Relying on Article 3 of the Convention, he argued that making the applicant's release conditional on a confession was tantamount to a slow death sentence.
34. On 12 November 2001 the applicant's friends attested that their offer of accommodation and employment, which they had repeatedly made over a period of seventeen years, was still valid even though their bakery was in the process of being sold to a private company founded by their children, as there was another business operating at their home address.
35. In a judgment of 23 November 2001 the National Parole Court upheld the Regional Parole Court's decision, holding that the offers of employment and accommodation referred to by the applicant in support of his application as evidence of a social resettlement plan were closely interlinked and were in doubt as a result of the bankruptcy order against the person who had made them; it added that the paranoid tendencies still observed by the most recent expert would have required psychological counselling, which the applicant did not envisage undergoing.
36. Following a proposal to commute the applicant's sentence, a fresh psychiatric assessment was carried out in May 2004. The expert considered that there had been no particularly perceptible change in the applicant's mental state since the psychiatric assessments in 1999; that his character and personality traits did not make it possible to rule out with absolute certainty the risk of manifest dangerousness in the community, in the psychiatric sense of the term; and that he had to reserve judgment as to the applicant's prospects of readjusting.
D. The 2005 application for release on licence
37. On 25 January 2005 the applicant lodged a further application for release on licence with the Arras Post-sentencing Court (tribunal de l'application des peines).
38. The prison authorities recommended applying a probationary semi-custodial regime. The public prosecutor was opposed to the applicant's release on licence, contending that such a measure would create a dual risk for society of his reoffending and of his decompensation.
39. In a judgment of 1 July 2005, which was upheld on 31 August 2005 by the Post-sentencing Division of the Douai Court of Appeal, the applicant was released on licence with effect from 3 October 2005 until 2 October 2015, on which date the monitoring and supervision arrangements would expire. In addition to the standard requirements which he was to observe (place of residence, contact with the judge responsible for execution of sentences and Prison Service social workers, permission for travel), particular obligations were imposed on the applicant: to undergo medical examinations, treatment or care, including in a hospital environment, and to refrain from contacting the victim's mother, from distributing any publication or audiovisual work produced or co-produced by himself relating, in whole or in part, to the offence committed, and from making any public comment on the offence.
40. The courts held that the applicant now satisfied the conditions laid down in Article 729 of the CCP and based their decision on three aspects. Firstly, he had a stable and long-term plan, which was coherent in terms of both accommodation (with long-standing friends who had already assisted a number of people in difficulty) and voluntary work for the Red Cross. Furthermore, with regard to the applicant's attitude towards the victims, the courts pointed out that he had not made the slightest gesture to them and was
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