“After finding Felix Dorfin legally and convincingly guilty of importing narcotics … is sentenced to the death penalty,” presiding judge Isnurul Syamsul Arif told the court.
He cited Dorfin’s involvement in an international drug syndicate and the amount of drugs in his possession as aggravating factors.The Frenchman made headlines in January when he escaped from a police detention centre and spent nearly two weeks on the run before he was captured. A female police officer was arrested for allegedly helping Dorfin escape from jail in exchange for money.Dorfin, who is from Bethune in northern France, sat impassively through much of the hearing in front of three judges, as a translator scribbled notes beside him.“Dorfin was shocked,” the Frenchman’s lawyer Deny Nur Indra told AFP.The lawyer said he would appeal against the sentence, describing his client as a “victim” who did not know the exact contents of what he was carrying.
A number of foreigners in Indonesia are on death row including cocaine-smuggling British grandmother Lindsay Sandiford and Serge Atlaoui, a Frenchman who has been on death row since 2007. Last year, eight Taiwanese drug smugglers were sentenced to death by an Indonesian court after being caught with around a tonne of crystal methamphetamine.
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