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Andrew Symeou
The extradition case of Andrew Symeou was finally decided yesterday. He’s to be dragged off to Greece on the basis of very dodgy information indeed and to be tried for manslaughter. This is under the european Arrest Warrant, which assumes that because we’re all lovvy dovvy in this European Union then of course all of the courts work to the same standards of evidence, to the same standards of protecting the innocent.
Which, to put it mildly, isn’t true.
Gerard Batten has a nice piece in the New Statesman explaining it all.
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25. June 2009 at 1:37 pm :
This needs an update. As Private Eye has put it. “Andrew Symeou has won the right to take his fight against extradition to the House of Lords … A panel of Law Lords will shortly decide whether to agree on a full hearing” Issue 1239, page 9, under the Brussels Sprouts column.
As Private Eye also says, this is “a blow to the status of the EU’s controversial European arrest warrants (EAWs).”