France, appeal to the Supreme Court for extradition ex br, legal: “Amazement, political decision”

“It is a purely political appeal” that of the Attorney General which challenged before the Cassation the no to the extradition of the ten former Italian terrorists “while it should be a legal appeal. I am amazed at this decision which is the result of political pressure. appeal has no possibility of going through as it is a matter in which the Court of Appeal is sovereign “. This was stated to Adnkronos by Irène Terrel, the French lawyer of seven of the ten former Italian terrorists arrested in France at the end of April as part of the ‘Red Shadows’ operation, commenting on the decision of the Public Prosecutor’s Office to challenge the sentence of the Court of Appeal of Paris which denied extradition to 10 former terrorists on June 29th. For Terrel, therefore, this appeal “is astonishing the result of inadmissible political pressure”. The President of the French Republic, Emmanuel Macron, then, notes the lawyer, “expressed himself in an unacceptable way with his statements during a press conference at the NATO summit in Madrid” explaining that he would have evaluated the possibility of presenting an appeal against the sentence. “Where is the separation of powers? There is a regression. Rights are trampled on by who should be the guarantor,” adds Terrel. “It is simply unbelievable”. For Terrel, however, therefore, this appeal “has no possibility of going through as it is inadmissible from a legal point of view, if the rules of law are applied. But I observe with amazement that the rules in this affair they are ignored, I have heard inadmissible and very serious political positions. When the President of the Republic speaks of the Mitterrand doctrine, explaining that France had rejected it, it requires it to extradite people who were not involved in blood crimes, he does not remember that this doctrine was applied precisely to the persons in question. They are the same dossiers for which France has also rejected requests for extradition in the past. It must be assumed that France does not respect his word “. ‘Macron tramples rights and shows contempt for justice Macron’s statements were therefore greeted with “amazement” by the lawyer: “I have never seen a French president dare to question a decision of a Court of Appeal that has done a painstaking job to more than a year. Declarations, made, then without knowing the dossier since the reasons for the sentence had not yet been filed. It is a way of acting that shows an incredible contempt for French justice “. The ruling of the Paris Court of Appeal “was extremely well motivated. It was not an ideological decision but a legal one. The Court rightly referred to articles 8 and 6 of the European Convention on Human Rights on respect for private and family life and on the judgment in absentia to deny extradition. I am amazed that this Convention which France itself signed is being called into question “.