(4 Mar 2006)
4 March 2006
1. Wide of accused gang leader Youssef Fofana's convoy arriving at Abidjan airport from prison
2. Close up of blue police vehicle carrying Fofana
3. SOUNDBITE: (French) Kone Mamadou, Ivorian Minister of Justice and Human rights:
"Yes this is good, it is a sign of a very good cooperation between France and the Ivory Coast."
4. Two policeman securing the armed vehicle carrying Fofana
5. Kone Mamadou giving extradition documents to the French delegation
6. Various of Fofana walking toward camera escorted by five policemen
7. Mid of Fofana's hands in cuffs
8. Fofana walking up to the plane escorted by two French policemen
9. Wide shot plane on runway with soldiers
10. Soldiers getting on plane
11. Various plane takes off
3 March 2006
12. Mid of extradition decree
13. Various close ups of of the decree
14. Close up of Ivorian President Laurent Gbagbo's signature on the decree
STORYLINE:
An accused gang leader wanted for his alleged role in the recent killing of a Jewish man near Paris was en route to France on Saturday after Ivory Coast officials handed him over for extradition.
Youssef Fofana, a Frenchman of Ivorian decent, was escorted by a dozen Ivorian paramilitary police to Abidjan's international airport, where he was handed over to French soldiers.
"It is a sign of a very good cooperation between France and the Ivory Coast", said Kone Mamadou, Ivorian Minister of Justice and Human rights
Late on Thursday in France, Foreign Minister Philippe Douste-Blazy welcomed the decision.
Fofana departed aboard a French military plane sent from France that had been waiting on the tarmac.
On Friday, Ivorian President Laurent Gbagbo signed the extradition order for Fofana, who was arrested by Ivorian security forces on February 22 in an Abidjan suburb.
The Jewish man, 23-year-old Ilan Halimi, was held by a gang for three weeks and tortured after being kidnapped on January 21.
He was found on February 13, naked, handcuffed, and covered with burn marks near railroad tracks south of Paris.
He died on the way to a hospital.
Halimi's murder revived concerns about anti-Semitism in France.
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