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"Mr President, the fact that in Europe, there are prisons in which prisoners, suspects and offenders run the risk of illness and violence is a scandal in itself. It is outrageous that there are Member States which, like the Commission, still talk about mutual trust in the rule of law; it is merely a matter of time before one of the courts, either Luxembourg or Strasbourg, prohibits a Member State from deporting a resident on the basis of Article 3 of the European Convention on Human Rights, the article dealing with torture and inhumane treatment.
The Dutchman, Robert Hörchner, spent eight months in a Polish prison on the basis of a European arrest warrant. He grew thin – if not to say emaciated – and had scabies all over his body. As it happens, he was acquitted. This Parliament does not want to see this sort of thing happening. Therefore, we are not just asking for better, cleaner, safe prisons, but also for a review of the principle of mutual trust without checks.
How can it be, in this time of debt crisis, that Member States which distrust each other in the area of finances are asking for sanctions, checks and balances and controls but which, when it comes to the deportation of a resident from one country to another, are able to trust each other well enough.
This Parliament therefore asks not only for safe prisons, but also for a maximum period of pre-detention and for judges to be able to refuse a deportation order based on a European arrest warrant and thus avoid sending a resident to another country if the detention facilities are such that Article 3 is violated. I say this, Mr President, because trust is good, but control is better."@en1
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