Tomorrow, Thursday 16 February, at 9.30 Belgium time (10.30 Greece time) the hearing is scheduled to take placeof Eva Kailis, Mark Tarabella and Antonio Pancheri.

It is the third time that Eva Kaili will appear before the pre-trial council, which will decide whether she will be released on parole or remain in custody. Last Monday it became known that the MEP will now be represented in Belgium by a new lawyer, the criminologist Sven Marie and not Andre Rizopoulos, while Michalis Dimitrakopoulos, her other advocate, will be in Brussels tomorrow, as in previous times.

As for the Belgian MEP Mark Tarabella, he was arrested last Friday, February 10, a few days after his immunity was lifted, and he was taken to Saint-Gilles prisons. “Everything is violent for Mr. Tarabella,” points out his advocate Maxim Toler speaking to rtl. “First, to learn that one of the people close to him is corrupt and that he admits it. Second, to learn that this person close to him lures him into his guilt pulling him down while apparently my client claims he is innocent,” he adds.

However, the Italian former MEP will also be in front of the judicial authorities, Antonio Pancheri, who had been arrested on December 9 and is said to be the mastermind of a group related to the European Parliament corruption case. On January 17, it was announced by the Brussels prosecutor’s office that Antonio Panzeri signed a memorandum of remorse and cooperation with the Belgian authorities.