Europe’s most wanted man, Karim Ouali, is still in Hong Kong © Online photo by Mak Yin-ting
British media quoted French police as saying that there is a high chance that Europe’s most wanted man, Karim Ouali, is still in Hong Kong and that they are “99 percent sure” that he will commit other serious criminal offences, urging the public to provide information to the French police or the EU’s wanted persons page. The Hong Kong police, however, declined to comment on individual incidents.
Hong Kong and France had earlier discussed an agreement on extradition of fugitives, agreed to an agreement pending the approval of the French parliament because Hong Kong’s implementation of the “Hong Kong National Security Law” was called off by France in August, meaning that even if the 44-year-old Ali is in Hong Kong, will not be handed back to France, but if there is information, the Hong Kong police can be expected to take action, people in Hong Kong can also be on the alert.
Sky News reports that Ali, who is an airport traffic control tower officer, is suspected of killing his boss Jean Meyer with an axe in the control tower of the European airport in France in 2011, then absconded to Switzerland and changed his passport surname from “O” to “Q He changed his passport surname from “O” to “Q” and then fled to Macau and Hong Kong. He was arrested and imprisoned in 2014 after Hong Kong authorities discovered that he had forged a passport and entered the country illegally, but his whereabouts have been unknown since 2016. Jacques Croly, head of the French Fugitive Arrest and Search Team, noted that the authorities had received a report in 2018 that he was still in Hong Kong and that he should not have any identification documents as he had surrendered his passport to the Hong Kong authorities, and that he had no organization or money to allow him to leave Hong Kong, and that the authorities had not received any news that he had left Hong Kong, so it was believed that he had started a new life in Hong Kong. He also said that the French and Hong Kong authorities have been cooperating extensively, but Ali is still at large, so decided to make a public appeal.
Goli revealed that Ali suffers from paranoia and schizophrenia, claiming that “people who meet him are in danger”, and must make people in Hong Kong fully aware of his dangerous nature, otherwise when he is caught committing crimes again in the future, the French police will not be able to forgive themselves.
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