Police in custody of Chilean for extradition to France

Officers from the Chilean Investigation Police took custody of Nicolas Zepeda in his home on Wednesday, to carry out his extradition order to France, where he will face charges on the disappearance and alleged murder of his former Japanese girlfriend Narumi Kurosaki in France in 2016.

Zepeda was under house arrest in Viña del Mar, but the Chilean Supreme Court lifed the order earlier on Wednesday in order to hand him to the Interpol. Officers drove away in a tinted window car. Nicolas Zepeda will be extradited to France on a flight on Thursday. A court in Chile ruled the extradition in March, when Zepeda's defense argued that he could not be extradited because Kurosaki's body has never been found.

But the decision was finally settled by the Chilean Supreme court in April. Zepeda had returned to Chile before an investigation into Kurosaki's disappearance began and has reportedly not cooperated with Chilean prosecutors representing French authorities.