Shutting down eMates, a messaging system that allows prisoners to communicate with the outside world, is unnecessary and unjustified. That is what Ridouan Taghi, the main suspect in the controversial liquidation process Marengo, says through his lawyer. Taghi is detained in the Extra Secure Institution (EBI) in Vught.
That reports the AD Tuesday.
Recently, reports came out that he could use eMates without much supervision in the EBI. According to the Public Prosecution Service, this created the risk that he could also continue to act criminally from detention.
‘Messages checked’
Minister Franc Weerwind for Legal Protection then suspended the use of the electronic service. Taghi is not happy about that, his lawyer Inez Weski now says in a letter. “After all, it appears from the client’s detention procedures that have been running for some time that all communication via eMates (as well as visits and telephone contacts) of the client was indeed checked.”
According to Taghi, the service is only a digitization of the possibility to send letters, “to which every detainee has an unlimited right”.
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