Imprisoned for 19 years in Indonesia, Frenchman Serge Atlaoui could potentially be repatriated to France. In any case, this is the wish of Paris, which is trying to save the sixty-year-old sentenced to death in 2007.
According to The Parisianthis man is suspected of being a chemist who is part of a drug trafficking network. It was in 2005 that the latter was arrested in a factory in Jakarta.
Initially sentenced to life in prison, he finally saw his sentence increased by the Supreme Court, which decided to sentence him to death.
This father of four children explains that he only installed industrial machines in an acrylic factory. He formerly worked in the Renault factory in the town of Annonay in the Ardèche department, then in factories in the North of France and Lorraine.
The year of his arrest, this artisan moved to the Netherlands alongside his partner. According to our colleagues, it was in September 2005 that Atlaoui headed to Indonesia to carry out work “in the dark” for 2,000 euros per week.
A return to France at the end of December?
The Quai d’Orsay explains that the Frenchman was not able to benefit from an interpreter who would have taken place “in extremely questionable conditions”.
He is then incarcerated in a prison called “Alcatraz” Indonesian. The other detainee in his cell died during his detention.
Always according to The Parisianon April 29, 2015, Atlaoui should have been executed but he narrowly escaped death thanks to the mobilizations of François Hollande, then head of state, Manuel Valls, Prime Minister at the time, but also Laurent Fabius and by Corinne Breuzé, French ambassador to Jakarta.
This Thursday, the Indonesian Minister in charge of Legal Affairs and Human Rights said he hoped that these transfers, that of Atlaoui and those of other prisoners, could be done by “the end of December”.
