(MENAFN- Kuwait News Agency (KUNA)) France has summoned the Indonesian envoy to Paris over the potential execution of a French national convicted for drug offences in Indonesia and soon to face execution, the Foreign Ministry confirmed Wednesday.
On Tuesday, French Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius warned there would be "consequences" to relations with Indonesia if national Serge Atlaoui is sent to a firing squad as is planned.
Atlaoui, 51, who was arrested in 2005 in an "ecstasy" production lab after a police raid, claims he is innocent and was merely delivering equipment to the facility and did not know what was being made there.
The Indonesian Supreme Court recently rejected a final appeal to commute Atlaoui's 2007 death sentence to life imprisonment.
Fabius summoned the Indonesian ambassador Hotmangadjara Pandjaitan to the Quai d'Orsay Wednesday morning and expressed his "deep concern" about the potential execution and also affirmed France's long-standing opposition to the death penalty in all circumstances.
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