PRAGUE, 14 sep. The Czech court sent the Russian citizen Alexander Franchetti, detained at the request of Ukraine, to a pre-trial detention cell, lawyer Jan Schwartz told RIA Novosti.
«He will be kept in the Pankrat prison (a prison in the center of Prague, — Ed. Note),» the lawyer added.
The defense attorney intends to challenge the decision in the Supreme Court, which the law gives for consideration of three weeks. In case of refusal, the case will automatically go to the Prague prosecutor Jaroslava Novotny. She, Schwartz clarified, can both submit the documents to the Prague City Court, and consider that there are not enough grounds for extraditing a Russian to Ukraine. Franchetti himself called the charges against him «a step towards fascism.» to make a decision. The girl burst into tears when her father was escorted past her. She hoped that he would be released from custody. «The judge asked in what conditions our family lives in Prague, what kind of apartment we have. They asked what kind of relationship we have in our family, what kind of relationship with our father,» Diya told RIA Novosti. was detained at the Prague airport on an international order of Ukraine on Sunday. The media wrote that Kiev considered him one of the participants in the events of the «Crimean Spring», but no one officially announced that he was being charged. On the eve, the Russian embassy in the Czech Republic sent a note to the country's Foreign Ministry, in which it demanded to inform in detail about the motives of the authorities' actions, as well as to inform what Franchetti is accused of. The UK also sent inquiries to Prague. Ales Tsimbala, a spokesman for the Prague prosecutor's office, said that Kiev had already requested the extradition of the Russian. The decision will be made by the city court of the Czech capital, but before that the investigation will find out if there are any obstacles to the transfer of Franchetti to Ukraine.
Crimea commented on the detention of a participant in the «Crimean Spring» by the Czech Republic