Mali singer Traore flees French justice to return home | Malay Mail

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PARIS, May 18 — Malian singer Rokia Traore has flown home, flouting a ban issued by a French court which was to hand her over to Belgium over a child custody dispute, her lawyer said yesterday. The singer and guitarist was arrested in March on a European arrest warrant when she arrived from...

Malian singer Rokia Traore performs during the closing ceremony of the 2017 Africa Cup of Nations football tournament in Libreville, Gabon February 5, 2017. — AFP pic

The singer and guitarist was arrested in March on a European arrest warrant when she arrived from Bamako at Paris' Charles de Gaulle airport. “This is a mother in a desperate plight who is afraid that her child will be torn from her,” her lawyer Kenneth Feliho told AFP. “That is why she left for Mali where she lives.”

 

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