The Court of Appeal refuses to extradite Vincenzo Vecchi to Italy

Vincenzo Vecchi will not be extradited to Italy. The Lyon Court of Appeal, to which the file had been referred, considered this Friday that the European arrest warrant issued against him was not applicable. A decision which the activist’s support committee welcomed. “Democratic common sense and the spirit of the law prevailed. After Rennes and Angers, this is the third time that a court of appeal has rendered the same verdict”, he underlines, calling on the public prosecutor not to “appeal in cassation”.

Three days to appeal

Vincenzo Vecchi is one of the “10 of Genoa”, ten demonstrators sentenced to “aberrant sentences” for opposing the holding of the G8, in 2001. He had been sentenced to twelve years in prison in 2012, sentence then reduced to ten years of criminal imprisonment. Since then, the activist has taken refuge in France and settled in Morbihan.

The public prosecutor’s office has three days to appeal this decision. At the hearing, the representative of the public prosecutor had requested that Vincenzo Vecchi be returned to his country.


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