Hard to understand

Is casino owner Francesco Corallo getting a fair treatment? That is the question we pose with the publication of our front page interview today.

Extradition seems a fairly simple procedure – unless the request is groundless of course; there is no earthly reason to keep someone detained for more than a hundred days while everybody is waiting for a date for a court hearing.

This is not just about Corallo – this could happen to any citizen.

Tomorrow the court will deal behind closed doors with two requests: the suspension of Corallo’s detention and, if the court disapproves, a transfer to the Pointe Blanche prison where there are more facilities available.

In the meantime, there still is no date for the extradition hearing – and we are now 111 days after his arrest. That during all this time the court has been unable to find a date for this hearing is hard to understand and probably even harder to explain.

This is not about the question of guilt or innocence; but as time drags on the handling of this case begins increasingly to smell of harassment and in that sense it threatens to become a blemish on our judicial system.

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Click here to read the exclusive interview with Francesco Corallo…