WILLEMSTAD - The Curaçao government is in contact with the Dutch embassy in Morocco about the Curaçao born Shardyone Semerel. Last weekend he was sentenced to death in that country.

According to the court, the 30-year-old Curacao resident and his 25-year-old co-perpetrator Edwin Robles Martines wanted to murder an Amsterdam cafe owner in Marrakesh in 2017, but they killed the wrong person; the 26-year-old son of a Moroccan judge. Both receive the death penalty for this crime.

The Plenipotentiary Minister of Curaçao Anthony Begina said that the detainees communicate with the embassy via a self-chosen contact person and that the embassy offers all possible assistance to them.