Now that he has been recaptured, the extradition to Portugal from Morocco of Fábio Loureiro – one of five men who broke out of Vale de Judeus jail using a ladder and sheets tied together to make a form of rope – could take months. SIC Notícias reports that the strategy of Fábio’s defence lawyer Abdelkader Boukasri is to argue that his client wants to remain in prison in Morocco, not Portugal, as that way he could avoid any extra time being added to his sentence for having escaped. It’s a process, in other words, and according to Boukasri “it could take months”.
Extradition of Vale de Judeus escapee “could take months”
Morocco is no great distance from Southern Europe. It is understood that Fábio Loureiro was trying to reach Algeria, a little further south, which does not have an extradition agreement with Portugal, and which may not even have exercised the international arrest warrant that was out in his name.
