 Daoudi was arrested on September 29, 2001, by the British police in connection with the US Paris Embassy plot, after he was deported from London, where he was detained, on September 25, 2001, following the arrest of Brahim Benmerzouga and Baghdad Meziane.According to the indictment, he used the Internet café in Paris to communicate with Al Qaeda and was supposed to assemble the car bomb for the US embassy attack.Daoudi’s trial, alongside five more defendants in the US Paris Embassy case, began on January 4, 2005, in Paris, France.