Former Vice-President of the European Parliament Eva Kaili, detained in Haren prison since 9 December as part of Qatargate,
will have to remain in prison for at least another month
.
This was learned from the Belgian federal prosecutor's office after the resolution of the Council Chamber of the Brussels court.
"The position of the Belgian federal prosecutor's office" on Eva Kaili "is firmly negative".
This was stated by the lawyer of the former vice-president of the European Parliament, André Risopoulos, explaining that for the prosecutor Michael Claise "there are all the risks" valid for pre-trial detention, namely "the risk of absconding, collusion with third parties and pollution of evidence" and adding that for him and his colleague Mihalis Dimitrakopoulos "these risks do not exist".
In these six weeks in prison, the Greek politician detained for Qatargate "always answered in a specific and complete way the questions that were posed to her", added Rizopoulos,
Former European Parliament Vice-President Eva Kaili was subjected to a condition of torture in prison last week.
This was reported by the two lawyers of Greek politics, Mihalis Dimitrakopoulos and André Risopoulos, at the end of the hearing on the review of the pre-trial detention.
"We have once again asked for Eva Kaili's release with alternative measures such as an electronic bracelet or other types of similar measures", they added, underlining that Kaili "is innocent" and "has had no collaboration with Pier Antonio Panzeri".
The lawyer Mihailis Dimitrakopoulos explained that "from Wednesday 11 January to Friday 13 January Eva Kaili was in solitary confinement
by order of the investigating judge Michel Claise.
For sixteen hours she was in a police cell, not a prison, and in the cold.
She was denied a second blanket and her coat was removed, the light in the room was always on preventing her from sleeping, she was in her period of menstrual cycle with abundant bleeding and she was not allowed to wash.
This is torture "." Eva Kaili-lei continued by reading a document drawn up in agreement with the same former vice president of the European Parliament - she is accused but there is always the presumption of innocence.
We are in Europe, these acts violate the European Convention on Human Rights.
This is the Middle Ages". The lawyer made public Kaili's request to news media to "make these facts public, because transparency is the
soul of justice". "We hope - he added - that there will be a fair trial.
We are in Europe."
"For now, Mrs. Kaili is the only politician to be detained. She is being held in difficult conditions and this is extremely worrying", underlined Risopoulos, underlining that the Greek politician "must not become the person who pays the highest price" with "detention lasts, since she is certainly not at the center of the investigation. This is unbearable".
And he added that in 6 weeks in prison he was only able to see her daughter twice.