Equatorial Guinea wants Thatcher extradited

[seemslikeadream]

Fri 27 August, 2004 02:46


By Estelle Shirbon

MALABO (Reuters) - Equatorial Guinea wants the son of former Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher extradited from South Africa after his arrest on suspicion of involvement in a coup bid, one of the country's lawyers has said.

Mark Thatcher had been planning to leave South Africa before he was arrested on Wednesday on suspicion of helping to bankroll a plot to oust the president of Equatorial Guinea, sub-Saharan Africa's third biggest oil producer, police in Cape Town said.

"The process for requesting extradition has started. There has been a first contact, an initial expression of interest from the government of Equatorial Guinea to South Africa," said Lucie Bourthoumieux, a lawyer for the central African country.

"Now we have to wait for the response. This is really just the start of the process."

State prosecutors in Equatorial Guinea, where 14 suspected foreign mercenaries are on trial for plotting a coup, have demanded the death penalty for one of the men, South African Nick du Toit.

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[goforit]

1. Thatcher's little imperialist son.....should face the World Court!!!