Taha O., main suspect in the Philippine murder case, whose body was found buried in the Bois de Boulogne last September, will be extradited from Switzerland to France this Wednesday, November 6, CNEWS has learned.
The main suspect in the murder of Philippine, whose body was found buried in the Bois de Boulogne on September 21, 2024, Taha O., will be extradited from Switzerland to France this Wednesday, November 6, CNEWS learned from a source close to the case.
He was arrested at the main train station in Geneva on September 24. France had filed an extradition request on October 9, but the suspect, aged 22 and under an obligation to leave French territory (OQTF), had initially refused to be extradited. . “The accused person did not consent to simplified extradition,” said a spokesperson for the Federal Office of Justice.
On October 29, he finally agreed to be extradited to France. The suspect had already been convicted in 2021 for rape, then released in June 2024, “at the end of his sentence”, according to the Paris prosecutor’s office. He was then placed in an administrative detention center (CRA) in Metz.
Upon his release, he was placed under house arrest in a hotel in Yonne, where he had never been. Having failed to comply with his obligation to report, he was included in the wanted persons file the day before the murder, September 19.
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