Former Vice President of the European Parliament, Eva Kylieappealed against the extension of her pre-trial detention by the Brussels Pre-Trial Council.

Belgian authorities decided yesterday to keep Ms Kylie in prison for another two months, and today her new lawyer, Sven Marie, filed an appeal, as he had previously announced.

According to the Belgian newspaper Le Soir, Eva Kylie’s lawyer insists on this. its director will be cross-examined with Pier Antonio Pancheri, the alleged “mastermind” of Qatargate..

In mid-January, Belgian prosecutors announced that the former MEP and key defendant in Italy had agreed to cooperate with Belgian authorities in exchange for a reduced sentence.

“I really thought that it should and was going to be released at least with an electronic bracelet,” Sven Marie said after the decision of the pre-trial council.

“I’m sorry it wasn’t released and I still think it’s a trophy. But she is not only the vice-president of the European Parliament, Eva Kylie is also a mother. A mother who sees her 24-month-old baby twice a month. I respect this decision, but I dispute it and will appeal today,” he added.

He noted that he would prefer that Judge Cleese be present at the pre-trial conference, “because who knows the case better than him? I don’t know if the result would have been different, but we had a referee who had to replace him on short notice and who obviously didn’t know the case.”

However, Sven Mari noted that he shares the opinion of lawyer Mark Tarabella regarding the excessive weight given to the “repentant” Pancheri, saying: lied for a month, and now, with the status of the deceased, his word has become the gospel.”

As for MEP Mark Tarbella, whose request for release was rejected by the pre-trial board and who has been held for a month, his lawyer, Maxime Toler, also announced that he will appeal today. “The petition for release from custody does not depend on the process of dismissal of the investigator. Even if it is not forbidden to think that the latter necessarily followed from the former.

“Any judge can be challenged”

According to Suar, any judge can be removed – both during the investigation and during the trial – if there are “reasonable suspicions” of bias. The application for release must be submitted in a letter of argument and signed by an attorney who has been registered with the bar for more than ten years. Lawyer M. Tarabella said that he presented this procedure on the morning of Thursday, February 16, before the pre-trial council.

“If the judge refuses to recuse himself, an appeal to a higher court is possible,” the criminal lawyer, speaking on condition of anonymity, told Suaru. In this case, Judge Cleese has two days to respond “regardless of whether he agrees to the request for self-withdrawal,” the judicial code says. If he refuses to resign, Mark Tarabella’s defense can appeal within three days to the Court of Appeal, which in turn will issue a decision within eight days.

Source Le Soir