Indonesia to execute French drug trafficker on death row

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Serge Atlaoui, 51, has been denied clemency following a death sentence for serious narcotic offenses, The New York Times reports. According to a spokesman for the attorney general's office, the appeal was Atlaoui's last legal maneuver available. The execution will be scheduled after Ramadan ends on July 17.

Atlaoui was arrested in 2005 during a raid on a lab that reportedly produced 220 pounds of Ecstasy tablets a week. Atlaoui claims he was installing machinery in what he believed to be an acrylics factory.

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