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Politics : Bill Clinton Scandal - SANITY CHECK
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To: Zoltan! who wrote (11494)10/28/1998 5:34:00 PM
From: Borzou Daragahi  Read Replies (1) of 67261
 

Tuesday 27 October 1998
Pinochet faces arrest by Swiss
By Christopher Lockwood, Diplomatic Editor

GEN Augusto Pinochet last night faced arrest for the second time, as Geneva's
public prosecutor ordered him to be provisionally held pending extradition to
Switzerland on charges of assassination, kidnapping and the sequestration of
assets.

A spokesman for Interpol in London said an
extradition warrant had been received from
the Swiss police. It is expected to be passed
on to Scotland Yard today. Although the
general is already under arrest, following a
request from the Spanish police on Friday
Oct 16, the Metropolitan Police have no
legal alternative but to serve the second
warrant.

Geneva's public prosecutor, Bernard
Bertossa, yesterday formally demanded Mr
Pinochet's extradition and his provisional
arrest following a criminal complaint filed by the widow of a Swiss-Chilean
student who accuses him of complicity in her husband's death. In a statement,
Mr Bertossa said he had "arrived at the conclusion that the legal conditions are
sufficient to open an inquiry against Augusto Pinochet, the former dictator of
Chile, particularly on charges of assassination, kidnapping and sequestration".

Alexei Jaccard, a Leftist student at Geneva University, disappeared in May 1977
in Buenos Aires where he had fled after he was tortured in Chile. Other
extradition orders could include one from Sweden concerning the disappearance
of three Cubans. Relatives of two British and three French alleged victims of Gen
Pinochet's regime have also asked police to investigate.

telegraph.co.uk
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