Taha Oualidat, main suspect in the Philippine murder case, was handed over to French authorities on Wednesday November 6, indicates BFMTV. The individual was indicted for murder and rape as a repeat offender in the evening.
The main suspect in the murder of Philippine returns to France. According to information from BFMTV, Taha Oualidat was handed over to the French authorities on the morning of Wednesday November 6. The individual, arrested on September 24 in Geneva, is accused of having killed the 19-year-old student, found lifeless a few days earlier in the Bois de Boulogne. Its handover to the French authorities took place “without incident”, in Annemasse, in Haute-Savoie, underlines The Parisian.
The main suspect in Philippine's murder was indicted for “murder accompanied by another crime”, which makes him “risk life imprisonment”, indicated the Paris prosecutor's office. Also indicted for repeated rape, he appears in the evening before a judge of freedoms and detention, who must decide whether or not to pre-trial detain him. This 22-year-old individual, who arrived in France at the age of 17, has already been convicted of rape in the past. Taha Oualidat was released at the beginning of September, after almost five years of detention.
The suspect refused his extradition to France
As recalled The ParisianFrance made a request for the suspect's extradition on October 9. After an initial refusal, Taha Oualidat finally agreed to surrender to French justice at the end of October. According to his Swiss lawyer, Maître Florence Yersin, interviewed by BFMTV, the suspect had chosen “to move forward with the French procedure and not delay it”.
published on November 6 at 8:30 p.m., Baptiste Marin, 6Medias
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