France urges against anti-whaling activist Watson’s extradition to Japan

French President Emmanuel Macron’s office said on Tuesday that he was pressing Danish authorities not to extradite anti-whaling activist and Sea Shepherd founder Paul Watson to Japan after his arrest in Greenland on Sunday under an international arrest warrant issued by Japan. He faces charges on interfering with a Japanese whaling ship in the Antarctic Ocean in 2010.

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