Fire against the Belgian Justice from the French Libération, which points out that there is different treatment from one to the Eva Kaili and the Belgian MEP Mark Tarabellawho remain in custody, and on the other hand to Pier Antonio Pancheri and his former parliamentary assistant, Francesco Giorgiwho have been released under electronic monitoring.

As the correspondent of the French newspaper in Brussels notes, Jean Catremeryesterday Monday marked four months that Eva Kaili – who insists on her innocence – remains in custody without any convincing reason being presented by the Belgian Justice, “which, however, knew how to channel elements of the case to the local press, exclusively with the charge against her”.

The article points out that “although her role Kaili in the Qatargate case is marginal, the former vice-president of the European Parliament was the one who spent the most time in an underground Belgian prison, deprived of her two-year-old daughter, whom she only got to see for a few hours here and there’, while all the other people targeted by the investigation were released.

“The scandal of this arrest of a presumed-innocent-until-proven-is even greater since on Thursday the man who organized everything, the former Italian Socialist MEP Pier Antonio Panzeri, in turn regained a status of semi-freedom with electronic bracelet. “Previously, at the end of February, Panzeri’s main accomplice, Francesco Giorgi, a parliamentary assistant and partner of Eva Kaili, was discreetly released from prison, also with an electronic bracelet,” he notes.

The French newspaper underlines that the extension of the pre-trial detention of Cailis and Tarabelas – whose arrest is even more “absurd” – “is only justified if there is a risk to public security. But neither Kaili nor Tarabella, who have no criminal records, threatened, injured or killed anyone.

Furthermore, there is no risk of flight or destruction of evidence or recidivism, since all evidence has been seized, judicial review is commensurate with the risk of flight and recidivism is simply improbable.’

And Jean Catremer adds that, based on what he knows, “Kaili faces at worst a fine and a suspended prison sentence for money laundering – the only established offense, since she can’t explain where the money came from.”