Jakarta and Paris reached the case of Serge Atlaoui, a French national sentenced to death in Indonesia for drug trafficking. The sixty -something will be extradited to France on February 4.
In the death corridor for 17 years. The Frenchman Serge Atlaoui sentenced to death in Indonesia for drug trafficking, will be extradited to France on February 4, Jakarta said on Friday.
Yusril Ihza Mahendra, Indonesian Minister in charge of legal affairs and human rights, confirmed that the two countries were going to sign this Friday, January 24, an agreement on the transfer of the French sentenced in 2007.
“The agreement must be signed early Friday afternoon in Jakarta by Yusril Ihza Mahendra and by Gérald Darmanin, French Minister of Justice, remotely from Paris, by videoconferencing,” a close source told AFP told AFP Negotiations.
The fate that awaits the French after his return to the national territory could be specified when the agreement was signed, added this same source.
Serge Atlaoui was arrested in 2005 in a factory where drugs had been discovered, in the suburbs of Jakarta. The Frenchman was accused by the Indonesian authorities of being “a chemist”, that is to say a drug manufacturer.
-Very severe anti-drug legislation
The artisan welder from Metz, in northeast France, father of four, has always defended himself from being a drug trafficker, saying that he had only established industrial machines in What he thought was an acrylic factory.
The case had caused a stir in Indonesia, where anti -Drogue legislation is one of the most severe in the world. Initially sentenced to life prison, he had seen the Supreme Court weighs down the sentence and condemn it to capital punishment on appeal.
His execution was scheduled in 2015 but following Paris pressure, his death sentence had been suspended by Indonesia.
Another Frenchman, Félix Dorfin, arrested on the tourist island of Lombok, had been sentenced, beyond the requisitions, to the death penalty in 2019, also for drug trafficking that he has always denied. The sentence was then commissioned in a sentence of 19 years’ imprisonment which he is currently serving.
According to the NGO together against the death penalty (ECPM), the seat of which is in Paris, in addition to Serge Atlaoui, at least four French are currently sentenced to death in the world: two men in Morocco, one in China as well as than a woman in Algeria.
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