The Second Panel of the Federal Supreme Court (STF) decided this Wednesday (18) to authorize the extradition of a Colombian man who fled to Brazil after being sentenced to 27 years for the crimes of rape and murder. In today’s session, the ministers rejudged the case after the plenary of the STF determined the reanalysis of the issue after Colombian Jaime Enrique Saade Cormane benefited from a tie. According to the decision, Jaime Saade Cormane must be handed over to Colombian authorities to serve his sentence for murder. Extradition for rape was not authorized on procedural grounds. Colombia will still have to subtract the time he was imprisoned in Brazil. There is no deadline for Jaime to return to that country. Cormane was convicted in Colombia on charges of raping and murdering 18-year-old Nancy Mestre. The crime occurred in 1993 during New Year’s Eve. According to information in the process, Jaime and Nancy were dating and went out to celebrate the New Year. According to investigations, the accused assaulted the young woman and raped her. Days later, she succumbed to her injuries and died in a clinic. The sentence to 27 years in prison came out in 1996, but Jaime was already on the run, being found only in 2020 in Brazil, when he was finally arrested in Belo Horizonte. He lived under the false name of Henrique dos Santos Abdala. Currently, Jaime is free and still lives in the capital of Minas Gerais. During the trial, Jaime Cormane’s defense spoke out against the extradition because it understood that there are legal barriers to the delivery of the Colombian, such as the publication of the decision that determined the retrial and a new manifestation by the Colombian government about the extradition.
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