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"Whether it is legal assistance, translation and interpretation, information on the law, protecting suspected persons or providing consular assistance, these five procedural rights relating to the right of defence, which are set out in the Commission’s Green Paper, are in fact the core lawful standards for criminal procedures. No one can deny that the current situation is unsatisfactory.
Just one example: a man has been in prison for five months here in Alsace, despite the fact that everyone is presumed innocent until they have been proven guilty, in accordance with Article 9 of the Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen of 26 August 1789. Mr Lezeau, who is accused of being responsible for racist graffiti in Herrlisheim cemetery, must now prove his innocence, from his cell and despite the severe handicap of being presumed guilty from the word go by the Public Prosecutor in Colmar, Mr Schultz, on the basis of completely derisory evidence.
Were this report to allow such scandalous and iniquitous situations to be resolved, then yes, we could support this text. But I fear that it will do no such thing. I believe that this report is simply part of a scheme to foist a single judicial area upon us, and there is nothing to say that this will be a better guarantor of our freedoms."@en1
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