PARIS: French President Francois Hollande warned Indonesia on Wednesday that the execution of a Frenchman for drug offenses would damage ties between the two nations.

Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius also summoned the Indonesian ambassador in Paris a day after Serge Atlaoui, 51, had an appeal rejected by Indonesia’s Supreme Court, taking him closer to execution by firing squad for his role in a clandestine ecstasy lab near Jakarta.

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