Tunis bombing, Touil says he is innocent and denies extradition ok – Reuters Italy

MILAN / TUNIS (Reuters) – Abdel Majid Touil , the 22 year old Moroccan arrested Tuesday in Milanese running a strong international mandate from Tunisia who believes was involved in the Bardo Museum in Tunis, he has pleaded innocent in the court of the Court of Appeal who heard him in prison and denied the consent to extradition.

He told reporters his lawyer, the lawyer Silvia Fiorentino, leaving the San Vittore prison. “He proclaimed his innocence and called his arrest a mistake”.

That today, lasting about two hours before the judge appointed by the Court of Appeal of Milan Pietro Caccialanza, the hearing was required by code in the event of arrest carried out at the request of a foreign country, for the official identification of the arrested for the formal reading of the alleged offenses and to collect his eventual consent to an extradition request.

Today, the Interior Ministry spokesman Mohammed Ali tunisisno Aroui told Reuters that Tunisia has requested the extradition of Touil to be able to process.

PROCEDURES EXTRADITION

It’s worth mentioning at this point the procedure provided for by code. The requesting country has 40 days time, from when it receives notification of the execution of the arrest, to send to the Ministry of Justice, via the Foreign Ministry, its formal request for extradition with attachments all acts of investigation against the person arrested; once the file is sent to the Attorney General, it has three months within which to present its indictment in the Court of Appeal; at that point the Court of Appeal fixed the date for the hearing which will discuss extradition, which will be a closed hearing, in closed session.

In this case, judicial sources point out, just remember that in Italy has already been opened by the prosecutor in Rome proceedings for the attack Tunis, also died in the attack as four Italian tourists. Before being eventually extradited to Tunisia, the suspect will then be judged in Italy, according to sources.

Another condition to be from Tunisia and complied with in the case of extradition, they know the sources, is the assurance that the suspect can not be sentenced to death. Italian law does not permit it to deliver a defendant who would risk the death penalty. More …