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MALI: TUNISIAN EXTRADITED AFTER BEING SENTENCED TO DEATH
January 5, 2012: A Tunisian citizen has been extradited to his home country after being sentenced to death in Mali for a deadly attack against the French embassy in Bamako a year ago, judicial sources said.
Bachir Simoun, 24, was "discreetly extradited to Tunis last week, after a request from his country," a source in the judiciary told AFP on condition of anonymity.
"The Tunisian left his cell for good last Thursday.... We received all the papers for his extradition from the ministry of justice," said a prison official.
Simoun was sentenced to death by a Malian court in November for "terrorism and jailbreak" after an attack on the French embassy on January 5, 2011.
Armed with a pistol, an explosive device and a grenade, Simoun carried out an attack at the entrance to the embassy and a severely injured Malian citizen later died of his wounds.
He claimed to be acting on behalf of Al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM).
The death sentence against Bachir Semoun was called off thanks to the help of the Tunisia's President of the Republic and Justice and Foreign Ministers. (Sources: AFP, 05/01/2012)
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