translated from Spanish: France granted political asylum to Ricardo Palma Salamanca

during this Friday began to circulate in the European press, the news that the former front Ricardo Palma Salamanca, received political asylum in France. The news was confirmed by the Foreign Ministry to Emol, where it explained that the French Office of protection for refugees and Apatridras gave the benefit to the former front and his family. On the other hand, despite the current condition in which was Palma Salamanca shall respond to the judgment of extradition against. FROM FRANCIAChristian Rodríguez, Manager of international relations for the French left movement La France Insoumise, confirmed to La Tercera, the decision of France to grant him political asylum to Ricardo Palma Salamanca.” Today the family of Ricardo Palma Salamanca has been notified of the asylum. For him and his family. (…) It is very good news for everyone, especially his family and Ricardo”, said the former political refugee and one of the main managers in applying the benefit for Palm Salamanca.Con, added that the news about the former front,”is a triumph also in the sense that France is still a land of asylum, and that was what thousands of organizations and individuals requested both in Chile and in France, “he said. “Black” background fled in 1996 from the high security prison, where he was serving a sentence for the kidnapping of Cristián Edwards and the assassination of Sen. Jaime Guzman.palma Salamanca was fugitive from Chilean justice for more than 20 years, and in February it was arrested by the French authorities.

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