Online Time: Mr. Gazeas, Prosecutor General of Schleswig has requested EinenAuslieferungshaftbefehl against Catalan independence fighter CarlesPuigdemont. Did she surprise you?
Nikolaos Gazeas: I'm not surprised about delivery warrant issued by. But I binüberrascht that German prosecutor General has taken over all accusations derspanischen side. Puigdemont is to be delivered not only because of Vorwurfsder infidelity, but also because of rebellion. Because of Derschweren political offense of rebellion, I see, however, under German law Keineauslieferungsfähige deed.
Nikolaos Gazeasis a lawyer and defender in Cologne and lecturer at University re. He is an expert in international criminal law and extradition law.
Online Time: The Spanish judiciary is looking for Puigdemont because it organized an illegal independence referendum in Catalonia and n, at least temporarily, called DieUnabhängigkeit from Spain.
Gazeas: Relate investments Richter at Upper regional Court of Schleswig-Holstein must now examine wher events that will be done by Mr. Puigdemont in Haftbefehlvorgeworfen would be punishable even under German criminal law if it had occurred services us in Germany. DieGeneralstaatsanwaltschaft obviously means that. Ichentschieden. Mr Puigdemont's behaviour would only be alsHochverrat punishable by us. The high treason is regulated in paragraphs 81 and 82 desStrafgesetzbuches. He only intervenes if perpetrator is violently interests m orby threat. Neir is case here. HerrPuigdemont has neir applied nor threatened violence. According to Zutreffenderjuristischer definition of German treason, violence is only present, which could affect State institutions are compelled to surrender before perpetrator's hochverräterischenAbsichten, even if citizens are preserious Damage.
Online Time: Sounds like a very high threshold.
Gazeas: Right. That is also important. German law rightly demands that thata government also withstand fierce politischenAuseinandersetzungen in pressure situations. The violence threshold does not see Ichi's view of Mr Puigdemont in Catalonia conflict. The opponents of independence in Catalonia have always called to remain friedlichzu and also against forced administration by government in Madrid, under Catalonia since Unabhängigkeitserklärungsteht, was not sought.
Online Time: The Public Prosecutor's Office refers to its violence-justification for arrival of separatists in September 2017. At that time, Puigdemont decided to carry out illegal independence referendum on 1 October, although Catalan police considered it possible to "escalate violence" reachable vote. In fact, re were clashes, especially between central Spanish National Police, which was Barcelonaentsandt to prevent referendum and electorate.
Gazeas: DESWEGENGIBT There is also a lot of criticism of procedure Derspanischen justice among Spanish criminal law learners. If only possibility of violence is justified by accusation of rebellion, n every organiser of EinerDemonstration could be accused at end of day for most serious political crimes. That would be a profound encroachment on undVersammlungsfreiheit of opinion, which protects our freedom-democratic Basic Law. The Spanish Constitution is also sehrrechtsstaatlich oriented. Spanish criminal law is similar in many Punktendem German law. That is why a great many Spanish lawyers say: Here a neuerStraftatbestand was invented: possibility of a demonstration participant being gewalttätiged is to bring a political leader to prison for rebellion. The mere danger should be enough. Such an understanding is removed from jederakzeptablen interpretation of a criminal law of State of law. Rebellion – or German counterpart of high treason – is one of most serious political deeds DasStrafgesetzbuch knows. Political criminal law Mussimmer be interpreted closely, also and precisely because Sonstsehr can be abused quickly to eliminate political adversaries. The German attorney general's office is very far here, I mean too far, gone. The Nunabzuwartende decision of upper Oberlandesgericht is refore also important for DieRechtsauslegung in Germany.
Online Time: Why?
Gazeas: In doubt, an open and furr concept of violence also applies to us. And that would potentially limit a whole elementaresGrundrecht in any democracy, freedom of expression and DieVersammlungsfreiheit, but also limits of permissible political activity.
Date Of Update: 04 April 2018, 12:03
