The Colombian Ambassador to Brazil notifies Minjusticia of Saade’s extradition

Ambassador Guillermo Rivera wrote about him by Nancy Mestre.

Hours after STF learned of the notification from the Federal Supreme Court of Brazil, regarding the extradition process of Jaime Saade Cormane, the Colombian ambassador to Brazil, Guillermo Riverawrote on his X account (former Twitter) about the step taken by the Brazilian Ministry of Foreign Affairs in providing information about the procedure to the Colombian government.

“The Embassy of Colombia in Brazil received a note from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs informing them that the Federal Supreme Court had authorized the extradition of Jaime Saade for him crime of murder. It is now up to the Ministry of Justice to respond in the terms of the Extradition treaty signed between Colombia and Brazil”reads the diplomat’s message.

The @embjcolbrasil got a note from @ItamaratyGovBr reporting that the Federal Supreme Court has authorized the extradition of Jaime Saade for murder. It now matches @MinjusticiaCo respond under the terms of the extradition treaty signed between and .

— Guillermo Rivera (@riveraguillermo) October 26, 2023

In this sense, EL HERALDO has learned that what now corresponds is that the Ministry of Justice of Colombia, led by Minister Néstor Ozuna, officially responds to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Brazil that they are ready to meet all the requirements for the transfer of a man who was in hiding or living under another identity on Brazilian territory for more than 25 years, after the rape and murder of the young woman from Barranquilla Nancy Mestre.

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This was learned last Wednesdaylawyers from the Mestre family in Washington DC received a message from the Federal Supreme Court of BrazilSTF, related to the extradition process of Saade Cormane, which would again be stalled, so months ago (April), the decision to transfer the man convicted to Colombian territory rape and the murder of Nancy Mariana Mestre, during events that took place in Barranquilla in the 1990s.

EL HERALDO learned that Brazil’s Supreme Court had decided on a “source of clarification” which Saade Cormane’s lawyers had requested from this company, apparently trying to reverse the order of negotiations. extradition.

In summary, the STF indicated that the requests for clarification are intended to address possible gaps, contradictions or omissions in the contested ruling and that the contested ruling did not contain any deficiencies that would impede the understanding and compliance with the extradition resolution.

In addition, the STF chamber responsible for settling the appeal also ordered the implementation of the extradition resolution “immediately,” transferring it to the Ministry of Justice of the Republic of Brazil for the relevant procedures.

Faced with this new decision that ratifies the previously adopted measure, Martín Mestre Yunez said in a statement that: “both myself and the mother and brother of Nancy Mariana are waiting for the extradition and delivery of Mr. Saade Cormane to the authorities. May it soon become a reality in this sense. My lawyers have also asked the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the Ministry of Justice to expeditiously advance all relevant proceedings of the Colombian government so that the efforts we have made over the past nearly thirty years to achieve justice for Nancy’s crime Mariana will not be in danger. vain.”