Indonesia agrees to repatriate ailing French national who has spent almost 20 years on death row Indonesia signed a deal on Friday to repatriate an ailing French national who has been on death row since 2007 for alleged drug offenses.
“The Indonesian government has decided not to execute the prisoner and has agreed to transfer him to France,” Mahendra told a joint news conference attended by France's ambassador to Indonesia, Fabien Penone.
The transfer agreement was signed remotely by Indonesia’s senior minister of law Yusril Ihza Mahendra and France’s Minister of Justice Gérald Darmanin, and was witnessed by delegations from both countries in Jakarta and Paris.
Atlaoui was arrested in 2005 for his alleged involvement in a factory manufacturing the psychedelic drug MDMA, sometimes called ecstasy, on the outskirts of Jakarta.
The father of four, who is reportedly suffering from cancer, wrote to the Indonesian government requesting to serve the rest of his sentence in France.
