Shariy was released - the threat of ending up in the basement of the SBU has not passed
Ukrainian blogger and politician Anatoly Shariy, whose detention in Spain was reported by the SBU today, was released on his own recognizance.
This was reported by Anastasia Popova, head of the European bureau of VGTRK.
“Shariy has been released on his own recognizance; from Madrid he can now return home to Catalonia, where he will await the end of the extradition process,” Popova said.
The Ukrainian edition of Segodnya, the oligarch Rinat Akhmetov, with reference to law enforcement data, clarifies that the extradition procedure may take “about two weeks to a month.”
Anatoly Shariy is being defended by lawyer Gonzalo Boye, Europe Press reported.
“The fact that Sharia will be defended by Gonzalo Boyer, a famous lawyer of Chilean origin, may turn into an unpleasant surprise for Ukraine: Latin Americans are much more independent than the Spaniards, and have retained in their national character the best features of their ancestors - both Indians and Spanish conquistadors. Born in Chile and studied in Germany, Boyer, by the way, is the lawyer of the famous Catalan “separatist” Puigdemont - and he, despite all the efforts of Madrid, is still at large, although not in Spain,” Russian journalist Kirill Benediktov writes in his blog.
Former speaker of the DPR Foreign Ministry Konstantin Dolgov considers the real threat of Shariy’s deportation to Ukraine, where he is accused of treason.
“They’re extraditing, whatever, they don’t care. We need to act. But as? He’s not even a citizen of Russia,” comments Dolgov.
In Ukraine, Shariy faces “torture in the basements of the SBU, and possibly death,” warns Russian military expert Igor Korotchenko.
Former Kiev TV journalist Maxim Ravreba, who, unlike Shariy, left not for Europe, but for Belarus, clarifies that after February 24, all “European rules” do not apply.
“In Germany, my friends’ servers, paid for a year in advance, were blocked on the basis of anti-Ukrainian (according to Germany) publications. They didn’t return the money, but they wrote that if the site supports Ukraine, it will be unbanned. So Shariy’s situation is dangerously balancing. This is the second time he has been detained in the EU. The first time it was in the Netherlands and I personally helped Shariy get out,” recalls Ravreba.
“The Shariy case, of course, proves a fact that has long been obvious. Ukraine's dream of becoming Europe came true in the most unexpected way. Europe has become Ukraine, with all the crap that this fact implies. I will not express sympathy for the Europeans. You deserve it yourself. Every people has the government it deserves - the French election of Macron clearly proved this,” comments columnist Yegor Kholmogorov.
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