Seanad debates
Tuesday, 10 June 2003
Convention on the Future of Europe: Statements.
It would be sensible to move on to some sort of common policy in relation to the prosecution of cross-border crimes. I do not think we should be frightened about that. There are real difficulties between the code system and the common law system. There are horror tales we can all tell about prosecutorial or investigatorial systems where people can be locked up for quite some time merely on suspicion. If it is narrowly defined, and one is dealing with serious crimes of a terrorist nature or drug-related crimes or serious theft or whatever it might be, and such crimes cross borders, it should be possible to deal with that. We should not be frightened to tackle it.
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