EU must investigate who funded and sent Helder Toyaso and Mario Tadic to Bolivia

Cristiano Morsolin (Special to ARGENPRESS.info)

German MEP Jürgen Klut (1) expressed his surprise and confusion at the imposition of a human rights emergency in the case of Hungarian Roma Eldé Toazo and Croatian-Bolivian Mario Tadic, who are accused of belonging to an illegally armed paramilitary group seeking to provoke a separatist war in Bolivia, in the plenary session of the European Parliament. The MEP, who is a member of the GUE/NGL Group (2), said: “It is surprising that here in Europe we are discussing the need to improve our fight against terrorism and prevent European mercenaries from travelling to other countries to try to destabilise them, and that the conservative right-wing government in the European Parliament seeks to completely divert this debate, trying to interfere with the Bolivian judiciary and its right to try these terrorists under Bolivian law.

In response to the resolution of the right-wing, liberal and social democratic groups, which mentioned that the captured mercenaries have been in “pretrial detention without charge” since their arrest, Jürgen Kluth stressed that the resolution was contradictory because he admitted that “with regard to December 17, 2010, terrorism charges were publicly filed” and that Bolivian law was applicable under article 239 of the Code of Criminal Procedure.

Jürgen Kluth recalled the invitation sent by the Bolivian Chamber of Deputies to the European Commission, the embassies of the Member States and the European Parliament Committee, among others, to make an official visit to Bolivia, and in particular to the Santa Cruz Department, in order to clarify doubts.

Finally, German MEP Die Linke (Die Linke) MEP Krut (3) concluded: “I ask myself who is financing and sending these European mercenaries to Bolivia. The EU must focus on investigating this.”

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