• The widow of Jean Meyer, brutally killed in 2011 at Basel-Mulhouse airport, wrote a letter to Emmanuel Macron.

  • Ten years after the facts, she asks for the extradition of the alleged murderer of her husband.

  • He lives in Hong Kong, where the local authorities refuse to extradite him.

    • The facts are more than ten years old.

    In 2011, an air traffic controller at Basel-Mulhouse airport was brutally killed.

    The case still unresolved and the alleged murderer still in Hong Kong where local authorities refuse to extradite him, the victim's widow decided to act.

    She has just written to Emmanuel Macron.

    "I ask you, Mr. President, to do everything to facilitate and accelerate this extradition so that justice can be done for my husband, our child and our family," she wrote in a letter dated September 28. "I hope for a positive response from you and thank you now," she adds to the address of the Head of State.

    She also returns to the many twists and turns experienced by the hunt for Karim Ouali, one of the most wanted fugitives in Europe, on the run for ten years.

    This 45-year-old air traffic controller, nicknamed the "Joker" because of his fascination with the comic book character, is strongly suspected of having murdered Jean Meyer: on April 27, 2011, this 34-year-old tower leader was found at the 11th floor of the Basel-Mulhouse tower, just below the control room, killed by ten blows of a hatchet.

    Quickly suspected, Karim Ouali, also a controller at the same airport, had managed to escape after having obviously carefully prepared his run.

    Targeted by an international warrant, French police located him in Hong Kong via a dating site, but the Hong Kong authorities refuse to extradite him.

    "We are left behind"

    They "let it be known that they would not conduct any investigation", regrets the widow, who recalls that in August 2020, "France suspended the ratification of an extradition agreement with Hong Kong, thus complicating diplomatic relations between Paris and the Chinese Autonomous Territory ”.

    “France does not protect criminals.

    I do not want to and cannot believe it ", writes the one who says that she cannot" resign herself "to the fact that" the murderer of [her] husband is not extradited and sentenced because of tense diplomatic relations ".

    "Today, ten years after the tragedy, justice can be done", but "the French state is not reacting.

    We are left behind ”, while the alleged murderer of her husband“ lives in peace in a country where […] he is in no way worried ”, she laments.

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