French justice refuses at hand over Halima Ben Ali, youthful daughter of the previous autocrat, to Tunisia | EUROtoday

French justice dominated on Wednesday 1^er April, on the case of Halima Ben Ali: the daughter of the previous Tunisian autocrat won’t be handed over to Tunisia, in response to a deliberation rendered by the Paris Court of Appeal, competent in extradition issues.

The Tunisian authorities primarily accused Halima Ben Ali, arrested in a Paris airport within the fall of 2025, of monetary offenses.

During the debates on the extradition request to Tunisia, his lawyer, M^e Samia Maktouf assured that sending her consumer again to Tunisia would quantity to a “death sentence”.

“This decision is a huge relief, justice has been served and we can only be satisfied that the justice system takes a decision in accordance with the law,” his lawyer advised AFP after this deliberation on Wednesday. Halima Ben Ali, current, refused to make any assertion.

The investigating chamber of the Paris Court of Appeal, competent within the matter, justified its determination, amongst different issues, by the shortage of response from Tunisia to the requests of the French justice system when it comes to independence and impartiality of the Tunisian authorities.

Halima Ben Ali now free to maneuver

French justice additionally notes a scarcity of response to its requests to Tunisia regarding the circumstances of detention which might have been reserved for Halima Ben Ali and the cures out there to her within the occasion of mistreatment.

The courtroom of enchantment additionally lifted the judicial management of Halima Ben Ali, now free to maneuver.

The monetary offenses attributed by Tunisia might earn him as much as 20 years of imprisonment. It was notably a query of cash laundering coming from funds linked to the train of energy of his father.

Several Tunisian and overseas NGOs have deplored a regression in rights and freedoms since 2021.

Halima Ben Ali, who lived and labored in Dubai, was about to fly residence after a keep in Paris when she was arrested in a Paris airport.

On January 14, 2011, Zine el-Abidine Ben Ali fled his nation after 23 years in energy, following a well-liked revolt triggered by the immolation in December 2010 of a road vendor from Sidi Bouzid exasperated by poverty and police humiliation.

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He left accompanied by his second spouse, Leila Trabelsi, probably the most reviled personalities in Tunisia, their daughter Halima and their son Mohamed Zine el-Abidine. The former autocrat, who died in 2019, spent the final eight years of his life in exile in Saudi Arabia.

With AFP