Mystery solved. Judge Santiago Pedraz has concluded that Anatoli Sharii, a Ukrainian journalist and politician claimed by his country for “high treason”, is in Spain. The judge of the National High Court details this in an order signed this Tuesday, where he accepts the appeal presented by the defense against the decision to file the extradition of the reporter on the basis that he had allegedly left Catalonia and had traveled to Italy. A theory about the escape that the Ukrainian intelligence services sent to the instructor, but that his lawyer, Gonzalo Boye, always denied.
According to the opinion signed this Tuesday by Pedraz, to which EL PAÍS has had access, the documentation provided by the defense shows that Anatoli Sharii “is in Spain.” This resolution breathes air into the journalist, who feared that the decision to file his extradition for his alleged departure from the country for Italy would cause him to be arrested again in Catalonia, as happened last May, when he was arrested at his home in the coastal town of Roda de Berà (Tarragona), where he has lived for years. Boye explained that, when the case was shelved for that reason, his name would once again be incorporated into the police search and seizure databases.
But, in addition to accepting these defense arguments, Pedraz has made another decision in favor of the Ukrainian journalist. The judge has agreed to file the extradition for a different reason: Ukraine has not yet presented the demand for the reporter’s surrender, nor the “relevant documentation”. “It is obvious that this file cannot be kept open sine die (It is not known whether or not that demand and documents will be received) and with obvious damage to the claimed party, ”explains the magistrate.
Ukraine claims this journalist and blogger, with more than three million followers on YouTube, for alleged crimes of “high treason and incitement to hatred.” The Eastern European country accuses him of being at the service of Russia since 2014, of encouraging “separatist tendencies” and of helping Moscow with its “subversive” activities during the 2014 war conflict in Donbas. He attributes to him the publication of false information and, through the internet, “inciting interethnic hatred.”
An accusation that he denies: “I am not, [prorruso]. I have no contacts with Russia”, he said in a conversation with EL PAÍS in May 2021. Very critical of the policies of President Volodímir Zelensky, Sharii left Ukraine a decade ago. According to him, he says, because he felt persecuted for denouncing cases of political corruption. Next, he settled in Roda de Berà. The journalist details that, since then, he has received in Spain many threats from Ukrainian neo-Nazi groups.
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