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Mother and son burned alive for 780 thousand euros, the extradition of Ledjon Brakaj is confirmed

2022-10-17 20:09:20Aktualitet SHKRUAR NGA REDAKSIA VOX
Mother and son burned alive for 780 thousand euros, the extradition of Ledjon
The two victims and Ledjon Brakaj

The Maltese court has approved the extradition of the Albanian Ledjon Brakaj to Greece, after he was wanted for a suspected theft of 780,000 euros and double murder in 2015.

The 36-year-old Albanian was arrested in August this year in Malta, as the decision to extradite him was taken this Monday, Maltese media reports . Brakaj is suspected of being involved in a robbery which ended in the murder of an elderly woman and her grandson. They were violently beaten and then burned alive, Greek authorities claim.

He is charged with intentional homicide, aggravated robbery with violence and arson with risk of loss of life.

During the extradition process before the Magistrate's Court, Brakaj's lawyers had raised doubts about the identity of the arrested person, subsequently contradicting the conclusions of the fingerprint experts. The court, however, had approved the extradition after noting that the warrants related to extraditable offences, punishable by life imprisonment under Greek law and also punishable under Maltese law.

Brakaj was held in custody pending his extradition or appeal. His lawyers filed an appeal, arguing that the first court's decision was unsafe and unsatisfactory as it did not take into account the serious concerns they had raised about the situation in Greek prisons.

Conditions inside Greek prisons were such that his basic rights would be violated, they said. They said prisons in Greece had seen police abuses, serious sanitary deficiencies and overcrowded cells. For this reason, they sought an assurance from the Greek authorities that their client would not be subjected to such treatment if his extradition went through.

His lawyers filed an appeal, arguing that the first court's decision was unsafe and unsatisfactory as it did not take into account the serious concerns they had raised about the situation in Greek prisons.

Consuelo Scerri Herrera said the procedures related to a European arrest warrant were "the cornerstone of judicial cooperation". The mechanism included a judicial and non-political process, based on mutual trust between member states and mutual recognition of judicial decisions.

EU member states had a duty to enforce such orders and could face infringement proceedings if they failed to do so. Referring to a similar scenario in the proceedings against John Spiteri, the court said that as a court of criminal jurisdiction, it was not competent to decide on fundamental human rights issues.


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