Former European Parliament vice-president Eva Kaili has been released from prison and is being placed under electronic surveillance. Le Soir writes, quoting lawyer Sven Mary: “This decision strikes me as implacable logic”. Kaili, 44, from Thessaloniki and the mother of a two-year-old girl, was the last of the Qatargate suspects still to be placed on remand in prison. She has been in prison in Haren, on the northern outskirts of the Belgian capital, for over four months. She was arrested in flagrante delicto last December 9, after money was found in her house, and removed from the vice presidency of the Chamber a few days later. She was expelled from her party, Pasok, shortly after her arrest.
Yesterday, house arrest was granted, again with an electronic bracelet, to Belgian MEP Marc Tarabella, detained in Saint-Gilles prison after the Chamber deprived him of parliamentary immunity. Pierantonio Panzeri and Francesco Giorgi, a fellow Greek politician and father of the child, have also achieved house arrest in recent weeks. For the MEP Andrea Cozzolino, the Belgian investigators asked for his extradition, but the hearing was postponed just yesterday to the 2nd of May: the judges of the eighth section of the Court of Appeal of Naples accepted the requests for additions presented by the lawyers of the politician , Dezio Ferraro and Federico Conte.
Source: IL Tempo
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