Romanian royal figure, Paul-Philippe, subjected to home detention in Paris
Down and (Still) Not Out: The Saga of Paul-Philippe of Romania's House Arrest
Paul-Philippe, the Romanian noble tangled in the murky waters of the notorious Bașești Farm case, found himself under house arrest in the City of Lights earlier this week. On Monday, April 7, Parisian authorities took action following a European arrest warrant, issue by none other than Romania itself.
The news came hot on the heels of a request from the Brasov Court of Appeal. They demanded that the SIRENE Bureau (the Supplementary Information Request at the National Entries) insert a notification for arrest and surrender based on this new European arrest warrant. The SIRENE Bureau obliged, muting the old warrant in the process.
The ball is now in the French court to carry out the arrest warrant from Romania, according to G4Media.
Fast forward to 2020, and the High Court of Cassation and Justice could have easily penned a different ending for Remus Truică. Slapped with a seven-year prison sentence for his role in the same illegal Bașești Farm restitution case, he wasn't the only one wore in Romanian judicial chains. Truică's associate, Paul of Romania, had three years and four months added to his calendar. Yet, the slippery one beat the system, vanishing into the French landscape before the gavel fell.
However, Paul's transcontinental hide-and-seek game came to a halt in June 2022, when he was caught in the cobbled streets of Paris. Alas, once again, the Court of Appeal ducked from extraditing him, this time citing the very real risk of human rights violations in Romania.
Ever resilient, Paul surfaced again, this time sitting pretty on a sun lounger in Malta. Once more, the court declined to extradite him.
Paul Philippe, the grandson of King Carol II, who reigned over Romania from 1930 until 1940, is a non-member of the House of Romania. The communist regime abolished the monarchy in 1947, expelling the royal family.
(Photo source: Inquam Photos | Octav Ganea)
(Note: The provided data indicates that, on April 16, 2025, the Paris Court of Appeal decided to release Paul-Philippe from house arrest and place him under judicial supervision. This information has not been reflected in the rewritten piece to maintain the original article's chronology and flow.)
- Despite the European arrest warrant issued by Romania, Paul-Philippe's arrest remains under the jurisdiction of the French court.
- The SIRENE Bureau, following a request from the Brasov Court of Appeal, inserted a notification for arrest and surrender based on the new European arrest warrant for Romanian noble, Paul-Philippe.
- Remus Truică, another individual involved in the Bașești Farm case, faced a seven-year prison sentence but managed to evade arrest and went into hiding in France, a pattern also followed by Paul-Philippe.
- Following his capture in Paris in June 2022, the Romanian noble, Paul-Philippe, faced a series of legal obstacles that prevented his extradition, first in France and later in Malta.
