SANTIAGO: Chilean Nicolas Zepeda was extradited on Thursday from Chile to France where he will face possible trial over the 2016 murder of his Japanese ex-girlfriend, police said.
Earlier on Thursday, Etienne Manteaux, the public prosecutor in Besancon, said Zepeda had been “handed over to French police at the Santiago airport. He will therefore appear in Besancon” on Friday. His extradition ends a legal process in Chile that began in March when authorities finally accepted a request from French prosecutors to hand him over.
The plane is expected to land at the Charles de Gaulle airport in Paris at 10.55am on Friday, after which Zepeda will be taken to Besancon.