The European Economic Community (EEC) rejected a proposal by France to create a European court to try terrorists and other international criminals as an alternative to extradition.
The plan was presented by French Minister of Justice Robert Badinter to the Justice Ministers of France’s nine EEC partners meeting in Luxembourg yesterday. Badinter intimated that terrorist attacks against Jews and Jewish institutions in France and other Western European countries in recent years was one example for the need for International cooperation to bring terrorists to justice.
But his fellow ministers expressed preference for re-enforced extradition and other judicial procedures contained in a 1977 draft convention agreed on by the 21-member Council of Europe in Strasbourg. The convention has yet to be ratified.
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