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Belgian MEP Tarabella set to be released from prison, lawyer says
Belgian MEP Marc Tarabella is the newest suspect within the corruption scandal that has rocked the European Parliament who is about to be launched from jail, his lawyer confirmed to Euronews.
Tarabella, previously with the Socialist group, will be capable to return house underneath digital surveillance, the lawyer added.
Tarabella was arrested in February and charged with participation in a prison organisation, corruption, and cash laundering associated to a case of suspected bribery.
These had been the identical expenses confronted by Greek MEP Eva Kaili, her home accomplice Francesco Giorgi, former MEP Pier-Antonio Panzeri and NGO director Niccolò Figà-Talamanca.
The Belgian investigation has centred on an alleged cash-for-favours scheme that concerned “massive sums” of cash and “substantial” presents paid to affect EU decision-making, in response to authorities.
Tarabella “has at all times claimed to be harmless,” his lawyer informed Euronews, including that the MEP “by no means obtained cash or presents in alternate for his opinions”.
His launch within the coming days has not but been introduced by Belgian authorities however was confirmed by two attorneys to Euronews.
Final week, Pier Antonio Panzeri, one other suspect broadly believed to be the mastermind behind the scandal associated to suspected bribery, was launched from jail after almost 4 months behind bars.
Kaili, a former vice chairman of the European Parliament, in the meantime, stays in jail.
Tarabella was first elected to the European Parliament in 2004 and was a part of the parliament’s delegation for relations with the Arab Peninsula, which covers Qatar.
In November of final 12 months, he delivered a brief speech defending Qatar’s labour reforms within the context of the FIFA World Cup and later voted in favour of a visa waiver for Qatari and Kuwaiti residents.
Whereas Tarabella’s home was searched early on within the investigation, he was solely detained after MEPs voted to raise his immunity in early February.
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Pro-Palestinian university students in the Netherlands uphold protest
On Monday, students and faculty members from multiple universities in the Netherlands protested, voicing their opposition to Israel’s military operations in the Gaza Strip.
In the capital, demonstrators entered the University of Amsterdam building, set up tents, and built barricades using office furniture.
The University reported trespassing and vandalism and requested police intervention.
The mayor of Amsterdam, the police chief, and the public prosecutor decided to deploy riot police to break up the campus protest and restore order, a spokesperson for the mayor told Dutch media.
It is unclear how many protesters were arrested.
Similar protests also took place across Dutch university in Groningen, Nijmegen, Utrecht, Wageningen and Leiden.
Student protests have been gaining momentum across Europe, following similar actions in the US universities where several encampments have spread out.
The war started after the Palestinian militant groups attacked the southern of Israel, killing 1,200 people in a surprise attack and taking around 250 hostage.
Israel’s’ retaliatory military operation has killed more than 34,700 Palestinians, according to local health officials, and has devastated the Gaza Strip.
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4 Dominicans are accused of smuggling wildlife and throwing 113 birds overboard to their deaths
Four men from the Dominican Republic were indicted in Puerto Rico on charges of smuggling wildlife in a case involving more than 100 dead birds, officials said Monday.
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The men were detained after the U.S. Coast Guard spotted them earlier this month aboard a flagless boat north of Puerto Rico and saw them throw overboard wooden cages holding tropical birds as authorities approached, the U.S. Attorney’s Office said.
Some 113 birds were retrieved from the ocean, officials said, adding that the men had traveled to the U.S. territory to smuggle back exotic birds to the neighboring Dominican Republic.
The suspects appeared in court Monday. A judge ordered three of them held in prison and a fourth under house arrest pending an upcoming trial.
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