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Justice maintains in detention in France an Italian mafioso

2023-02-16T14:29:32.340Z


The Lyon Court of Appeal on Thursday refused to extradite Edgardo Greco, an Italian wanted by his country for murders linked to the Calabrian mafia while...


The Lyon Court of Appeal refused Thursday to extradite Edgardo Greco, an Italian wanted by his country for murders linked to the Calabrian mafia while ordering the continued detention of the fugitive recently arrested in Saint-Etienne.

Greco, 63, accused of belonging to the 'Ndrangheta and sentenced in 2006 in Italy to life imprisonment for homicide, was arrested on February 2 in Saint-Etienne where he ran a pizzeria, after 16 years on the run.

“Legal Difficulty”

"

In the current state of the proceedings, the investigating chamber of the Court of Appeal has decided to keep Edgardo Greco in detention, who was arrested under a European arrest warrant and who is currently imprisoned in France on this basis

,” the public prosecutor's office at the Lyon Court of Appeal told AFP.

The General Prosecutor's Office of the Court of Appeal, however, recognized a "

legal difficulty

" raised by the lawyer for the detainee Me Benoît Courtin: Edgardo Greco should have been arrested "

on the basis of an extradition request from the authorities Italian

" and not on the basis of a European arrest warrant, as was the case.

"

European rules provide that acts committed before November 1, 1993 must be processed in the form of extradition

", the date of the entry into force of the Maastricht Treaty creating the European Union, while "

those alleged against Mr. Greco date back to 1991

”, according to the general prosecutor’s office.

The Italian "

can therefore validly refuse to be surrendered to Italian justice and file a request for release at any time, until the arrival of a formal request for extradition

", according to the same source.

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The investigating chamber, however, rejected his request for release: it "

kept the person concerned under extradition detention, considering that the Schengen report was indeed worth a request for provisional arrest on the part of the Italian authorities within the framework of a common law extradition request

,” according to the same source.

"

Italy has 40 days from the date of arrest to make an extradition request, otherwise my client will have to be released

," Courtin told AFP.

His client "

refused to sign the report of his arrest as part of an extradition inquiry

", he said.

Edgardo Greco moved to France in 2006, the year of his conviction, according to the general prosecutor's office.

He worked in several Italian restaurants in Saint-Etienne, where he called himself Paolo Dimitrio, according to testimonies and documents consulted by AFP.

Source: lefigaro

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