Story of a guy who actually deserves 10 million from Trudeau

[EndlessCritic]

http://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/hassan-diab-france-terrorism-investigation-1.4614855

Hassan Diab was a professor at the University of Ottawa, and is a Canadian citizen.

In 2009, he was suspected by France of being responsible for a bombing at a synogogue in 1980. The entirety of evidence against him was some handwriting analysis, which the Canadian judge noted as unreliable.

Even the judge called the French report "convoluted, very confusing with conclusions that are suspect." Maranger wrote that France has presented "a weak case; the prospects of conviction in the context of a fair trial, seem unlikely."

But none of that mattered.

Under Canada's extradition laws, any evidence France submitted to the court had to be considered "presumptively reliable." That means that no matter how many holes the defence experts poked in the analysis, the "smoking gun" report was legally bulletproof.

Diab was extradited to France in 2014, where he spent 38 months in solitary confinement awaiting trial. He has never been tried.

He has since been released in January 2018, and is now safe in Canada. The French judge ordered the case dropped due to lack of evidence. France claims they still want to try him for the bombing.

 

[EndlessCritic]

My A tier threads get no replies? You guys disappoint.

 

[2DUM2TAP]

Justin Trudeau didn't take office until November 4th, 2015....
Also at the end of the day the parties involved were following the law.

 

[EndlessCritic]

Justin Trudeau didn't take office until November 4th, 2015....
Also at the end of the day the parties involved were following the law.

Actually it's not clear that they were, considering the Canadian government was performing investigatory work on behalf of France. This is most certainly not Canada's role in an extradition proceeding.

 

[Ares Black]

Omar Khadr deserved to be compensated for his shameful treatment. He suffered a hell of a lot more than Diab.

Diab should be compensated too, but 10 million seems excessive. Diab was an adult being held in a French facility. Khadr was a child in Guantamo Bay.

 

[Bloodworth]

Guilty by association