Following a complaint by the Human Rights League and the relatives of the victim, the court initiated proceedings regarding the illegal expulsion of the Chechen refugee Magomed Gadaev from France to the Russian Federation. The defendants are the head of the French Ministry of Internal Affairs and a number of officials. 
According to the complainants, such deportations were contrary to international law and resulted in three convictions by the ECtHR in 2022.  

Mohammed Gadaev and his family left Russia 13 years ago. Before that, in Chechnya, he had been kidnapped and held by the security forces as a witness to a criminal case of torture in secret prisons. The man subsequently managed to free himself and emigrate. In June 2021, shortly after being forcibly deported to the Russian Federation, a court in Chechnya sentenced Gadaev to 1.5 years' imprisonment on the count of Article. 222 RF CRIMINAL CODE on possession of weapons. In August 2022, he was released from the colony.

The Mohammed Gadaev case caused a lot of attention. Amnesty International France, the Human Rights League and the Chechen European Committee had called on France to put an end to the unjustified deportation of Chechens to Russia, where they were arrested and prosecuted in fabricated criminal cases.