Source: Операция на Юнкер отложи дело по шпионски скандал
Nov 1, 2019
A Luxembourg court has adjourned its upcoming hearing on a spy scandal case after former Prime Minister Jean-Claude Juncker announced plans to undergo surgery.
The President of the European Commission will undergo surgery on 11 November for an aortic aneurysm in the abdomen. This is the reason why he cannot appear as a witness in the case, scheduled for November 19. It envisages 12 interrogations.
Three agents of the SREL intelligence service are charged with tapping. The prosecution said the crime was committed in 2007 when Juncker was still prime minister.
Prosecutors are in contact with various countries to propose another delay in the process, hoping it could start this year, a source told AFP.
The case was originally supposed to start in November 2017, but was postponed due to a loaded Junker program headed by the EC.
Prior to becoming President of the European Commission, Juncker was Prime Minister of Luxembourg for 18 years. However, the SREL scandal led to an election, after which Juncker fell out of power.
Officers for whom he was responsible were charged with various abuses between 2004 and 2009, including unlawful wiretapping to keep informants under control. The case is also linked to a series of undisclosed explosions of electric poles and public buildings that occurred in 1984 and 1986.
Two former gendarmerie officers have been investigated in a separate case, suspected of involvement in a bomb attack in which 5 people were injured. So far, these attacks have not been fully elucidated.
Meanwhile, SREL chief Marco Mill in 2003-2010 accused Juncker of allowing wiretaps when the service investigated the bombings.
Juncker denied but was summoned as a witness.
See also: Jean-Claude Juncker: the lurid spy scandal that forced him from office
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/luxembourg/10929711/Jean-Claude-Juncker-the-lurid-spy-scandal-that-forced-him-from-office.html
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