Christian B., the suspect in the case, Maddie, has had to contend with in his efforts to release from prison a setback. An advocate General of the European court of justice on Thursday came in a legal opinion to the result that the 43-year-old German was allowed to be sentenced in December 2019 by the regional court of Braunschweig because of the rape of an American woman. The opinion is for the ECJ judges are not binding, they usually follow the evaluation of the competent General Prosecutor.
Specifically, the ECJ process is that Christian B. calls for an annulment of the judgment because of the rape, because he was originally on the basis of a European arrest warrant for a different Offence to Germany delivered. He refers to the fact that there are EU rules on the European arrest warrant a ban, that someone is prosecuted because of other, prior to the extradition crime has been committed.
According to the legal opinion of this scheme, however, is irrelevant to the case, because the man in Germany had, in the meantime, leave voluntarily, and only after a new European arrest warrant back to Germany. This was enforced by authorities in Italy – the agreed, too, that the man is being prosecuted for the rape and convicted. In this case, the restrictions for the first warrant not in the opinion of the advocate General.
