Serge Atlaoui, at Soekarno Hatta International Airport in Tangerang, near Djakarta, Indonesia, February 4, 2025. Willy Kurniawan / Reuters Serge Atlaoui, French sentenced to death in Indonesia for drug trafficking in 2007, arrived in France Wednesday February 5 in the morning in a flight from Amsterdam shortly after 10 am at Roissy-Charles-de-Gaulle airport, according to an airport source. After his arrival, he must be taken care of by the prison administration to be brought to the Bobigny judicial court, competent for the airport. He will be “presented to the prosecutor who will notify his incarceration in France in execution of his sentence”, according to the Bobigny prosecution. “He will then be led directly to a penitentiary establishment determined by the prison administration,” continued the same source. Serge Atlaoui, 61, left Indonesia on Tuesday at 7:35 p.m. local time (1:35 p.m. in France) after being extracted from Salemba prison in Djakarta, escorted by three French police officers. Before his departure, he had to participate in a press conference at Djakarta airport, alongside the French ambassador Fabien Penone and a official at the Indonesian ministry in charge of legal affairs and human rights, I Nyoman GEDE SURYA MATARAM. Mask on the mouth and black cap, the Frenchman remained silent throughout the conference. In 2005, this welder craftsman was arrested in a factory where tens of kilos of drugs had been discovered and the authorities accused him of being a “chemist”. Coming from Metz, this 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. Read also | Article reserved for our subscribers The end of the long ordeal of Serge Atlaoui, a Frenchman sentenced to death in Indonesia read later agreement between France and Indonesia initially sentenced to life prison, he had seen the Supreme Court weighs down the sentence and Sentence him to capital punishment on appeal. It was to be executed alongside eight others convicted in 2015, but obtained a reprieve after Paris intensified the pressure. Officially requested on November 4 by France, his return was made possible by the signing of an agreement on January 24 between the French Ministers of Justice Gérald Darmanin and Indonesian Yusril Ihza Mahendra. In this agreement, Djakarta explains that he decided to “do not execute” the prisoner and authorize his return for “humanitarian reasons” because “he is sick”. Mr. Atlaoui has followed a treatment every week in recent times in a hospital close to his prison. “I am delighted that the fight we have led to the victory of life over death,” reacted Tuesday with the France-Presse agency his lawyer, Me Richard Sédillot. “I will now work to make sure that the penalty is adapted in conditions that will allow its release. The case had caused a stir in Indonesia, where anti -Drogue legislation is one of the most severe in the world. But also in France where many personalities, including the Franco-Indonesian singer Anggun, had mobilized to support him. Indonesia, which has not carried out an execution since 2016, currently has at least 530 convicted in the death corridor, according to the human rights association Kontras, citing official data. Among them, more than 90 foreigners, including at least one woman, according to the Ministry of Immigration and Correctional Services. According to the French association together against the death penalty, in addition to Mr. Atlaoui, at least four French are currently sentenced to death in the world: two men in Morocco, one in China as well as a woman in Algeria. The world with AFP
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Publish date : 2025-02-05 11:37:59
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