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Polish judge refuses to extradite Ukrainian Nord Stream blasts suspect [View all]
Source: BBC
A Polish judge has refused to extradite a Ukrainian citizen – suspected by Germany of sabotaging the Nord Stream gas pipelines in September 2022 – arguing that if Ukraine was responsible for the attack, then it was a "just" act.
Volodymyr Zhuravlyov, who was brought to Warsaw District Court in handcuffs, was detained in Poland last month on a European arrest warrant.
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Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk, whose government is a key ally of war-torn Ukraine, immediately posted on X that the ruling was right.
"Case closed," he wrote.
Read more: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c8drmzv98jzo
A similar case in Italy initially had a judge allowing the extradition, but "the top appeals court" annulled that, meaning the case starts again.
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