📧 Communication

This document is a formal letter from the French Ministry of Justice to the US Department of Justice, dated December 11, 2020, filed in the case United States v. Ghislaine Maxwell (Case 1:20-cr-00330-AJN). The letter clarifies French penal code, stating that France absolutely refuses to extradite its own citizens (including dual nationals), but under the principle of 'aut dedere aut judicare' (extradite or prosecute), France retains jurisdiction to try its citizens for crimes committed abroad. This is legally significant to the Maxwell case as she held French citizenship.