Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2008-09-01-Speech-1-071"
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"Madam President, here is a concrete example of what a one-size-fits-all integrated European judicial system leads to.
A 19-year-old man in London, Andrew Symeou, faces extradition to Greece on a manslaughter charge. Mr Symeou maintains that he has nothing whatsoever to do with the crime in question. The evidence against him is suspect, depending on dubious identification and statements allegedly beaten out of his friends by the Greek police.
That evidence should be scrutinised by a British court before it agrees to his extradition. However, under a European arrest warrant, a British court now has no right to examine
evidence in order to satisfy itself that extradition is justified, and no power to prevent it.
The European arrest warrant means that British citizens now effectively no longer enjoy the basic protection of the law against arbitrary arrest and detention as established by Magna Carta. That does not serve the interests of justice for the victim or the accused, both of whom deserve it."@en1
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