Extradition treaty could allow Van der Sloot to return to Holland
Posted on 05/16/2011 6:52:48 AM PDT by La Lydia
An extradition treaty signed this week between the Netherlands and Peru could open the door for Joran Van der Sloot to return to his native country if convicted in the death of a 21-year-old Peruvian woman. A spokesman with Peru's foreign ministry, Gonzalo Portals Zubiate, said Friday that the treaty -- which allows some Dutch nationals sentenced to time in Peru to serve their sentences in Europe, with the inverse for Peruvians convicted in Holland -- has nothing to do with Van der Sloot, specifically. Still, the suspect's attorney acknowledged it could affect him...
Van der Sloot is being held at Miguel Castro Castro prison in Lima on charges of first-degree murder and robbery in the death of 21-year-old Stephany Flores. Authorities found Flores' body in June in a Lima hotel room registered to Van der Sloot.
Van der Sloot is perhaps best known as the prime suspect in the disappearance of American teen Natalee Holloway...
Police have said Van der Sloot admitted he attacked Flores on May 30 after she read an e-mail on his computer connecting him to the case of Holloway, who went missing while on vacation in Aruba in 2005. After killing Flores, police say, Van der Sloot took money and bank cards from her wallet and fled to Chile, where he was arrested June 3...
Van der Sloot, 23, moved from Holland to Aruba as a child and returned to his homeland for several years to attend college. Since he is a Dutch national, he could eventually request extradition based on a treaty signed Thursday by Peruvian Foreign Minister José Antonio García Belaúnde and his Dutch counterpart Uri Rosenthal...
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Peruvians who are in prison anywhere in the (Netherlands) are also entitled to invoke the treaty.If it was really just a question of "serving out the time", I bet not many Peruvians would want to trade a Dutch prison cell for a Peruvian one. But I'm sure, that in both kinds of trades, the time can be re-negotiated back on home territory.
Hopefully he will meet with an unfortunate accident during the trip back home.....
Maybe they will release the punk into the general population NOW, and his fellow prisoners will take care of this problem.
Extradition treaty could allow Van der Sloot to return to Holland
Thanks for the ping, LucyT.
If Joran leaves Peru, America will be his next stop. There is that little problem he has with taking money from the Holloways...
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