By Baghdadhope
According to France-Presse Agency yesterday Tareq Aziz’s lawyer, Badie Arif Ezzat, asked the Iraqi government to move the trial (adjourned to May 20) from Baghdad to Iraqi Kurdistan. The reason for this request is, according to Ezzat, the insecurity in the capital and the greater ease that the others Aziz’s lawyers would have to get to the north of the country now regularly linked by plane with Europe. Al Jeeran, however, reported the piece of news that the request to move the see of the trial is linked to the U.S. government decision to surrender Aziz and other detainees in the hands of the Iraqi government, which is already legally responsible, renouncing their physical custody that, for Tareq Aziz, means detention at Camp Cropper in Baghdad. Regarding the defence college, the same day of the first hearing of the trial, last April 24, Tareq Aziz asked to appoint a lawyer representing him instead of Badie Arif Ezzat for whom the Iraqi Court issued a restrictive measure for offenses to the same court, and a few days later, as reported by the website of the Iraqi Kuwait Organization, Ezzat declared he had already been contacted by some Europeans lawyers eager to assist Tareq Aziz. Among them, a French lawyer of Lebanese origin, Andrè Chamie, the famous French lawyer, Jacques Verges, known in the international law circles as "the devil’s lawyer" for having assisted people like Klaus Barbie, Ilich Ramirez Sanchez, better known by his nom de guerre "Carlos", and Slobodan Milošević, and a team of Italian lawyers not mentioned by names but that can easily be imagined led by Giovanni Di Stefano who is a far-back Italian legal advisor of Tareq Aziz.
According to France-Presse Agency yesterday Tareq Aziz’s lawyer, Badie Arif Ezzat, asked the Iraqi government to move the trial (adjourned to May 20) from Baghdad to Iraqi Kurdistan. The reason for this request is, according to Ezzat, the insecurity in the capital and the greater ease that the others Aziz’s lawyers would have to get to the north of the country now regularly linked by plane with Europe. Al Jeeran, however, reported the piece of news that the request to move the see of the trial is linked to the U.S. government decision to surrender Aziz and other detainees in the hands of the Iraqi government, which is already legally responsible, renouncing their physical custody that, for Tareq Aziz, means detention at Camp Cropper in Baghdad. Regarding the defence college, the same day of the first hearing of the trial, last April 24, Tareq Aziz asked to appoint a lawyer representing him instead of Badie Arif Ezzat for whom the Iraqi Court issued a restrictive measure for offenses to the same court, and a few days later, as reported by the website of the Iraqi Kuwait Organization, Ezzat declared he had already been contacted by some Europeans lawyers eager to assist Tareq Aziz. Among them, a French lawyer of Lebanese origin, Andrè Chamie, the famous French lawyer, Jacques Verges, known in the international law circles as "the devil’s lawyer" for having assisted people like Klaus Barbie, Ilich Ramirez Sanchez, better known by his nom de guerre "Carlos", and Slobodan Milošević, and a team of Italian lawyers not mentioned by names but that can easily be imagined led by Giovanni Di Stefano who is a far-back Italian legal advisor of Tareq Aziz.
