“The choice was made yesterday, and the enchantment court docket determined that the extradition of the suspect to the Lithuanian authorities could be refused,” mentioned Norberts Volinskis, press consultant of the Warsaw-Prague District Prosecutor’s Workplace, to the BNS information company on Friday.
On June 7, the information company “Reuters” reported that the court docket in Poland determined to not extradite the primary Polish citizen who was suspected of the assault on Volkov to Lithuania.
The Courtroom of Enchantment mentioned that the Polish citizen can’t be extradited to Lithuania, because the Polish Prosecutor’s Workplace is investigating an identical legal case concerning this assault.
It was already reported that the 2 Polish residents have been detained in Warsaw on April 3, and town’s district court docket determined to extradite them to Lithuania within the second half of April, on the situation that they serve the sentence in Poland if they’re convicted.
Each Polish residents utilized.
On April 19, Lithuanian President Gitans Nausėda was the primary to publicly announce that two individuals had been arrested in Poland on suspicion of the assault on Volkov.
On the identical day, the Prime Minister of Poland, Donald Tusk, wrote on the platform “X” {that a} citizen of Belarus, who may very well be the mastermind of the assault, was additionally detained.
On the night of March 12, Volkov, who was a buddy of the deceased Russian opposition chief Alexei Navalny, was attacked in Vilnius.
The attacker broke the window glass of Volkov’s automobile, shocked him with tear fuel and began beating him with a meat mallet. Volkov’s arm was damaged and his leg injured within the incident.
A pre-trial investigation has been launched into the incident. The State Safety Division of Lithuania introduced that the assault was an operation organized and carried out by Russia.
The pinnacle of the Nationwide Disaster Administration Heart, Vilmants Vitkauskas, mentioned that the assault, which known as the primary case of political terrorism in Lithuania, was an expert, well-planned operation.
Volkov lives in Lithuania after leaving Russia, the place he was threatened with detention.