Lawyers are only allowed to represent a maximum of two detainees in the Extra Secure Institution (EBI) in Vught if it is up to the VVD. This can be read in De Telegraaf. In the future, it should become more difficult for criminals to pass on messages to each other or to the outside world through lawyers.
Member of Parliament Ulysse Ellian explains newspaper shows that there have been major concerns for a long time about lawyers being used to get messages out or to spread them between criminals. The VVD member will submit a plan on Tuesday to limit the number of contacts between lawyers.
Weski
For example, former lawyer Inez Weski was accused last week by the Public Prosecution Service of abusing her position as a lawyer so that her client Ridouan Taghi could continue his drug trafficking.
A total of around eight thousand crypto messages are said to have been exchanged between Faissal, Taghi’s son, and Weski. According to Ellian, ‘the examples of recent years show that it is not an imaginary risk’.
According to the VVD member, the danger that you contain with this measure is more important than the freedom that lawyers should have. According to him, when you talk about communication between the biggest criminals or orders given to the outside world, it concerns ‘a risk that could put lives at stake in the outside world’.
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