The Court of Justice of the European Union will decide today whether the Supreme Court can issue a Euro order to demand the extradition of the former president.
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The Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) will rule this Tuesday on the preliminary rulings of the Magistrate of the Supreme Court (TS), Pablo Llarena, to clarify the scope of the Euro orders against the former president of Catalonia , Carles Puigdemont, to clarify. and some of his ex-consellers for his involvement in the independence process.
Last July, the general attorney responsible for advising on the case agreed with Llarena when he considered that The Belgian judiciary cannot refuse the delivery of Puigdemont and others claimed by the Spanish judiciary on the basis of the risk of their fundamental rights being violated if they fail to demonstrate systemic and widespread deficiencies in Spain, nor can they question the powers of the Supreme Court as the authority to issue such Euro orders .
The advice of the General Counsel is not binding on the CJEU, but in the vast majority of cases the judgments of the European Justice follow the line set by these opinions.
Llarena has referred the case to the Court in Luxembourg for a preliminary ruling in March 2021, after the Belgian judiciary refused to extradite former minister Lluís Puig to the Spanish authoritieswhereas the competent court to seek his extradition should be the Supreme Court of Catalonia (TSJC) and that if he were handed over to Spain, fundamental rights such as the presumption of innocence could be jeopardized.
European lawyer Jean Richard de la Tour, in his opinion of July, recalled the “principle of mutual trust” between Member States prevailing in judicial matters and defended it as an element “of paramount importance” to be fully applied to protect the borderless area within the EU and to simplify judicial cooperation to “combat impunity”.
He also warned that to refuse a Eurowarrant because of the risk to the defendant’s fundamental rights, the judicial authority must demonstrate with “objective, reliable, accurate and duly updated data, the existence of a real riskdue to “systemic or widespread” shortcomings in the functioning of the judiciary of the issuing Member State.
It is recalled that the European Commission confirmed this at the hearing on this issue in Luxembourg there is no systemic problem for the rule of law in Spain.
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Source: EITB
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