Why was it so easy in this case?

[anotheoldgit]

http://www.independen...n-battle-7714944.html

We try for years to try and extradite certain suspected terrorists, (with no success to date), yet here we have a Greek who is wanted in Spain for alleged crimes and he can be extradited only 10 months after being arrested, and with no interference from ECHR.

[andrew1707]

Because it is a completely different case?

[rojash]

European International Arrest Warrant makes it easy to extradite from one EU country to another.
But I'm not sure what you have in mind when you say "We try for years to try and extradite certain suspected terrorists". Which ones did you have in mind?

[FredPuli43]

Because Spain is not Jordan, but within the EU, and nobody was flaunting an argument about torture or evidence obtained thereby.
Don't know what got into Daphne Wickham though; what was all that nonsense about the attempted assassination charge being not runnable in Spain? It's not her job to decide whether the prosecution there will get past half-time. That kind of thinking would stop many a terrorist from being extradited to anywhere.

[pdq1]

You have brought up an important situation here. Is a country more responsible for its own citizens than that of a country he is held in. If he is Greek maybe he should have been deported to Greece and for them to decide his fate.

Here in the UK we find it difficult to deport any of a foreign origin because they have allowed terrorists to take up British citizenship and their former countries don't want them.

In this case Spain does want him so the job becomes easier to deport.

[emmie]

Because this within Europe, so seems a damn sight easier, than trying to shunt one out to Jordan, or some other Middle Eastern country. The usual comment seem to be, they will likely be tortured, or even killed. Whereas in Spain that is not going to happen presumably.