Lawyer expects response from
Curaçao courts ‘very soon’
~ Court battle coming for shooting suspect’s return ~
PHILIPSBURG--The lawyer for a St. Maarten-born suspected killer plans to fight her client’s extradition to Guadeloupe as far as she needs to, to ensure the young man returns to the island.
Attorney Shaira Bommel is willing to take her allegations of mismanagement in shooting suspect M.Y.’s extradition last week “to the European court” if necessary. Y. was escorted out of the Pointe Blanche House of Detention on St. Martin/St. Maarten Day and driven to French St. Martin, detained and then sent to Guadeloupe on Wednesday.
She expects a response from the Central Government “very soon” to a letter she sent one week ago challenging Y.’s extradition. Until then, she plans to file a complaint of wrongful procedure at the Prosecutor’s Office and to discuss the problem with the courts in Guadeloupe.
Y. is a suspect in a French St. Martin shooting on December 10, 2002. He is believed to have killed escaped murder suspect Clayton Genaro, who fled capture while under suspicion for the shooting death of Michel Lucien “Moondoggie” Sorton.
Bommel and Y.’s family contend that his extradition was unlawful, claiming that prosecutors jumped the gun in having him sent without the completion of his extradition procedures. She wants to keep him from returning to French territory, because “they had enough time.” “If he’s sent back to the island, I’m going to start procedure against his going back to French side,” Bommel told The Daily Herald.
“If we have to, we’ll take it to the European court.”
In the meantime, she has been in contact with Guadeloupe authorities about the extradition process and hopes to see things through to completion.
