“It has been proven that some people have been abducted, deprived of freedom and carried to” Europe “to be delivered to countries in which they have been tortured”. Reactions of concern were raised by the report presented yesterday to the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe, which met in Strasbourg, by Swiss MP, Dick Marty. He added, during the debate promoted by the organisation that deals with human rights, that “it is very unlikely that the European Governments or at least their intelligence services did not know that over one hundred people had been carried to Europe”. The investigation, conducted on behalf of the CoE, seems to confirm that Cia jails did exist in some countries of the old Continent. Marty then explained that “many consistent and converging clues suggest a torture delocalisation system does exist”. After all, the Swiss MP himself stated that “at this stage, there is no formal or irrefutable evidence” of the existence of “secret jails in Rumania, Poland or anywhere else”. Marty explained he also received “intelligence from Eurocontrol”, the European Air Traffic Agency. The subject was taken up by the Security and Freedom Commissioner, Franco Frattini, who defined the statements as “very momentous”. Frattini however “welcomed” the report and invited the EU member states to cooperate with the Council of Europe to expedite the investigation.
