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The tug of battle over the extradition of the Ukrainian Serhij Ok., requested by Germany, due to the assault on the Nord Stream pipelines in September 2022 continues. Immediately after the extradition choice of an appeals courtroom in Bologna on Monday afternoon, K’s lawyer Nicola Canestrini introduced that he would once more attraction the matter to the Court of Cassation in Rome. “We will continue to fight for a judge to examine in depth the questions of international law and immunity that have not yet even been considered by the Italian courts,” Canestrini stated.

The lawyer stated that there have been additionally “serious procedural deficiencies” on the new listening to in Bologna, which affected the legality and compliance with the ideas of due course of. Serhij Ok. stays in custody in Italy in the meanwhile.

Canestrini criticized specifically that the courtroom had as soon as once more not taken into consideration his consumer’s so-called useful immunity, which protects anybody who acted as a part of a navy operation from prosecution. The lawyer argues that his consumer, who denies involvement within the assault, can’t be delivered to trial for the crime he’s accused of and due to this fact can’t be extradited from Italy to Germany for prosecution there. If he had been concerned within the assault, the previous captain of the Ukrainian Armed Forces would have been appearing on greater orders in a battle.