Spanish court revokes Netanyahu war crimes warrant
- 8 years ago
Spanish judges canceled on Thursday an earlier decision to register Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu and six other officials as war crimes suspects, and said it had been a jurisdictional error.
Judge Jose de la Mata had determined last month that the seven were suspects in connection with a complaint over the 2010 Mavi Marmara incident.
De la Mata ordered police and national guard forces to notify him immediately if Netanyahu or the other named Israeli officials entered the country.
However, a panel that supersedes de la Mata ruled that “The 2nd section of Penal Court found the judge adopted this measure without jurisdiction as the issue had been closed last June” – according to a statement by ACOM, a pro-Israel Spanish group based in Madrid.
Judge Jose de la Mata had determined last month that the seven were suspects in connection with a complaint over the 2010 Mavi Marmara incident.
De la Mata ordered police and national guard forces to notify him immediately if Netanyahu or the other named Israeli officials entered the country.
However, a panel that supersedes de la Mata ruled that “The 2nd section of Penal Court found the judge adopted this measure without jurisdiction as the issue had been closed last June” – according to a statement by ACOM, a pro-Israel Spanish group based in Madrid.