News Releases
Franco Frattini
No.72/05
August 4, 2005
STATEMENT BY EUROPEAN COMMISSION VICE PRESIDENT FRATTINI ON ITALIAN
DECISION ON THE LEGAL PROCEEDINGS IN REGARD TO THE LONDON BOMBING SUSPECT
The setting of the date, the 17th of August, for the extradition
hearing of Issac Hamdi--one of the men suspected of carrying out the
attempted bombings on July 21 in London--at the Court of Appeal of Rome is
considered as "good and important news" by European Commission Vice
President
Franco Frattini.
"The timely and swift decision of the Court of Appeal of Rome," added Frattini,
"confirms the serious commitment of Italian judicial authorities, and
particularly of public prosecutors investigating on this case, at a time
when the challenge to establish new and continuing cooperation among EU
Member States is crucial. Furthermore, this decision shows the strategic
importance of the new legal instruments developed by the EU, such as the
European Arrest Warrant, capable of delivering the real added value of
European action at the very time when the Union is confronted with
difficult challenges, i.e., after [the] London bombings. This shows that
Europe is finally playing its role."
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http://europa.eu.int/comm/justice_home/index_en.htm
http://europa.eu.int/comm/press_room/index_en.htm
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