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| Beatrice Ask, photo: Pawel Flato |
The Swedish government has earlier indicated that they will deport a man to Rwanda. He is accused of war crimes in Rwanda in 1994. Now the European Court demans that his deportation is postponed.
It was yesterday that the European Court appealed to the Swedish government that it would postpone the deportation of the Rwandian man. The European Court wants more time to put questions about the case. They will then decide whether or not the case will be tried there.
When the Swedish government said that the man would be deported to Rwanda he appealed to the European Court.
- This is not failure of the Swedish legal system. On the contrary it is good if the case is tried by the European Court to invistigate whether or not it is in line with the EU Commission, says Nils Rekke, director of the public prosecution authority to TT.
The 53-year-old Rwandian man is suspected for murder of a family of 28 persons during the period of 1994 genocide in Rwanda. Last week, the government accepted the statements from Högsta domstolen (Supreme Court) and the Cfief Public Prosecutor that there were no legal obstacles to deport the man to Rwanda.
We have very small means to do the investigation here in Sweden that this case demands, Mr Rekke says to TT.
The man is actually a resident in Denmark, but was arrested in Sweden when his wife wanted to renew her passport at the Rwandian embassy in Sweden. The man has earlier been prosecuted in Denmark but was acquitted.
The accused man claims that he is innocent and that the charges are built on false information given by wittnesses. The man´s laywer Hans Hedberg is very critical:
- There is no possibility for my client to get a fair trial in Rwanda, Mr Hedberg says to Svenska Dagbladet.
Sweden´s Minister for Justice, Beatrice Ask is not surprised by the appeal from the European Court:
- We anticiped that this would happen Ms Ask says to Svenska Dagbladet.