“It was time after 20 years”: Serge Atlaoui, ex-death to death in Indonesia, came out of prison

“It’s an exceptional day” – "it time after 20 years":

“I would never have thought it would happen […]it was time after 20 years, “said Serge Atlaoui in front of the few media. However, “It is an exceptional day today for my family. Meanwhile, my relatives, all those who supported me,” he added, saying that “distance and loneliness” had been “the hardest to bear” during all these years. Similarly, The voice slightly tinged with emotion. shiny eyes, he said he said “goodbye and forever” to the prison supervisors before going out.

“He will breathe an expected freedom. hoped for so many years,” his wife Sabine Atlaoui announced on Friday morning on RTL, adding that she did not want to reveal the place and the moment when she found her husband who had been condemned in Indonesia for narcotrafic and had been detained since 2005.

The sentence of Serge “it time after 20 years”: Atlaoui. 61, having been commissioned in French law in 30 years of criminal imprisonment by the Pontoise court in February, the craftsman-soder was theoretically eligible for parole since 2011 according to French rules. “Imagine that a few years ago. he was on the verge of death, that his coffin had been made, that we were already announced that he was going to be executed […]I tell myself today that perseverance and work pay, ”reacted M^e Richard Sédillot, saying to himself “very happy”.

Originally from Metz. Serge Atlaoui had been arrested in 2005 in a factory near Jakarta where tens of kilos of drugs had been discovered. Indonesian authorities accused him of being a “chemist”. The Frenchman 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.