JAKARTA: Indonesia and France will on Friday (Jan 24) signal an settlement over the repatriation of a Frenchman on dying row for drug offences, a senior Indonesian minister mentioned.
Serge Atlaoui, who has been in jail in Indonesia since 2005, is predicted to return to France on Feb 5 or Feb 6, the senior minister for legislation and human rights affairs, Yusril Ihza Mahendra, instructed Reuters.
Atlaoui was sentenced to dying for being a chemist in an ecstasy manufacturing unit within the capital Jakarta that was able to producing 100kg of the unlawful capsules each week.
He has lengthy maintained his innocence, saying he thought he was working in an acrylics manufacturing unit.
In 2015, Atlaoui was about to be executed with seven different international prisoners however was granted a last-minute reprieve. An Indonesian court docket then rejected his enchantment in opposition to the dying sentence, leaving him with no different authorized choices.
Minister Yusril will signal the repatriation settlement with the French Minister of Justice Gerald Darmanin by way of video teleconference, mentioned Yusril.
France has agreed a number of phrases proposed by Indonesia, he mentioned, together with respecting the Indonesian court docket ruling over Atlaoui.
“After the switch, all is dependent upon the French authorities, whether or not they wish to give him clemency or giving sentences based on the French legislation,” Yusril mentioned.
Based mostly on French legislation, the utmost punishment for the same case is 30 years in jail, he added.
France’s justice ministry didn’t instantly reply to an emailed request for remark late on Thursday.
