The former 21 -year -old computer student was arrested in May in Tangier. He is accused of conspiracy to commit fraud and electronic abuse. The Court of Cassation of Morocco issued in August an opinion favorable to its extradition to the United States.
MO12345lemonde with AFP
The committee against the torture of the United Nations (UN) was seized on Wednesday December 28 in the Sébastien Raoult case, a French student arrested in Morocco and claimed by the American justice for cybercrime, announced His lawyer, Philippe Ohayon, who fears his next extradition to the United States.
According to him, a prison guard notified and translates the extradition decree to Mr. Raoult on Monday in his cell. The Moroccan, French and American authorities did not wish to confirm this information to the Agency France-Presse (AFP). The Court of Cassation of Morocco issued in August a “favorable opinion” to the extradition of Sébastien Raoult and the final decision of his transfer returns to the Moroccan Prime Minister.
The former 21 -year -old computer student was arrested on May 31 in Tangier (northern Morocco) on the basis of a red notice issued by Interpol at the request of American justice, while he Prés was preparing to take the plane to return to France. He is accused by the Americans of conspiracy with a view to committing fraud and electronic abuse, serious identity theft and of being a member of the “shinyhuters”, a group of “cybercriminals” suspected of being behind business cyber attacks, that he disputes.
a hundred and sixteen years in prison incurred in the United States
m. Ohayon seized the committee against torture to suspend this transfer, based on “several extraditions granted in recent years by Morocco” and which have been blocked by this UN organization. “The Committee considers that Moroccan law does not allow sufficient control against the risk of inhuman and degrading treatment,” said the lawyer to AFP.
The lawyer asks the committee against torture “to have the same position as the European Court of Human Rights, according to which there can be no extradition when the person faces a real perpetual sentence, Either until his death, without diplomatic guarantees of a possibility of sentence development, “he added. He stresses that “despite a hundred and sixteen years in prison incurred [in the United States] the Moroccan authorities did not ask for and obtained these guarantees”. In his request, Philippe Ohayon also asked Morocco to suspend the extradition of Sébastien Raoult until the committee against torture is pronounced and to release it.
contacted, the French Ministry of Foreign Affairs, which has not confirmed the existence of this extradition decree, assured that the French had received “five consular visits since his imprisonment which made it possible to ensure His conditions of detention, his state of health and respect for the rights of the defense “. Philippe Ohayon and Paul Raoult, the student’s father, multiply the steps with the French authorities, without success for the moment, in order to make him extradite to France so that he is tried.