Overview

• After obtaining conditional parole on July 15, Atlaoui will leave Meaux prison today to be greeted by his lawyer Me Richard Sédillot.
• He was repatriated from Indonesia on February 4 under the Jan. 24 prisoner-transfer agreement between France and Indonesia.
• In February the Tribunal de Pontoise applied French law to commute his Indonesian death sentence to a 30-year prison term.
• Under French parole rules he was eligible for conditional release after serving one-third of his sentence, a threshold met in 2011.
• Claims over his deteriorating health coupled with doubts about trial fairness drove France’s diplomatic push for his repatriation.