Extradition

The arrest, conducted in collaboration with authorities from Belgium, Colombia, and the United Kingdom, also led to the detention of two other suspects. Namoussi, a resident of Genk, Belgium, was previously sentenced in absentia to seven years in prison for drug trafficking in 2021

The warrant followed a court order demanding she return her daughter to the child’s father, Belgian national Jan Goossens. Despite the order and a subsequent travel ban, Traoré flew to Mali with her daughter, then just four years old, in open defiance of the court's ruling