Does France recognise asylum status as a bar to extradition?

French courts give substantial weight to refugee status or pending asylum claims when assessing extradition requests. If you hold asylum in an EU member state, extradition to the country of persecution would typically violate the 1951 Refugee Convention and Article 3 ECHR. However, asylum status does not create an automatic legal bar — the extradition chamber must still formally examine the request. Courts will assess whether the extradition relates to the same persecution grounds underlying your asylum or constitutes an unrelated criminal matter.