In June, the Danish police received an inquiry from the French authorities requesting that a 37-year-old man from Viborg be arrested.
In France, he is suspected of human trafficking and negligent manslaughter in connection with a case in which boat refugees drowned on their way across the sea from France to England last October.
The court in Viborg has now decided that the man must be extradited to France, the Central and West Jutland Police inform, who arrested the man on 23 June at his residence.
He has been in custody ever since, and on Monday the city court had to decide whether he could be extradited. The decision to extradite him to France is based, among other things, on an assessment from the Attorney General, the police write in a press release.
The 37-year-old denies guilt and he has appealed the ruling. Thus, the high court must now decide whether the man can be extradited.
Viborg Stifts Folkeblad has previously reported that the man before the arrest in Denmark was remanded in custody in absentia – without being present – in the French city of Dunkirk.
In France, in addition to human trafficking and negligent manslaughter, he is also charged with causing danger and participating in a criminal organization.
According to the newspaper, France believes the man has been deeply involved in human trafficking, with a network from September last year to June this year smuggling refugees and migrants across the English Channel.
During a constitutional inquiry, it has emerged that the man who lives in Viborg with his wife and children has bought several boats, and according to the French authorities, he has used the boats to transport migrants across the sea.
Danish police received the inquiry from the French authorities on June 22, and at night he was arrested.