Paedophile to be extradited to India

Bhubaneswar: The state government’s request for extradition of a French “paedophile”, wanted in connection with a case against him in Puri, has been granted by the government of Namibia, where he was arrested recently.
The accused, Mathieu Nicolas Furic, was booked in December 2013 for allegedly having unnatural sex with minor boys on the beach. “A Namibian court has permitted Furic’s extradition.Two police officers from Sea Beach police station in Puri will go to the foreign country to bring him to Odisha,” said an officer of the home department.
Earlier this year, Puri police approached the Namibia government through CBI and Interpol, seeking Furic’s extradition. According to procedures, the matter was placed in the foreign court, which granted permission after going through the FIR, related documents and evidences, furnished by Puri police.
On December 2 last year, James Foster Gorman, a former military officer from Topeka in the USA, filed a complaint with Sea Beach police that Furic allegedly had sex with some children on Penthakota beach on November 26.
Furic was booked under Sections of 18 and 12 of the Protection of Children From Sexual Offences Act, 2012, 341 (wrongful restraint), 323 (causing hurt) and 506 (criminal intimidation) of IPC.
Gorman produced a video clip, containing his conversation with the victims, in front of the police as evidence against Furic. After receiving the complaint, police raided the hotel where Furic had stayed, but he had left on November 26. A lookout circular was issued at all airports and ports for him.
In June this year, Furic was arrested at Walvis Bay airport in Namibia and denied bail by the Windhoek magistrate court. “This is perhaps the first such extradition permission granted in favour of India in the recent past as several such requests by different states were rejected by many countries,” said Vidya Reddy of Tulir - Centre for the Prevention and Healing of Child Sexual Abuse (CPHCSA), a voluntary organization.