There is no interpreter and an examining magistrate let go drugkoerier

There is no interpreter and an examining magistrate let go drugkoerierSaturday was at a Brussels investigating magistrate a Brazilian lethargy that the police friday night with four kilograms cocaine was intercepted at the airport of Zaventem. In contrast to the police friday night was not the investigating magistrate saturday Portuguese interpreter and showed the investigating magistrate the suspect - according to the lawyer of the suspect after a whole day to have sought - free.

'There is a shortage of court interpreters in our country,' says Henri Boghe, president of Lextra Lingua, association of court interpreters, in the parc newssheet. 'Occasionally, there is an acute problem. Most of the people in the profession exercise business, and thus are not always available. The government must make the application more attractive. Appeal Court Interpreter must be a legally protected, the interpreters must have their own statute, and the training should be harmonized.'

Also the Belgian Chamber of translators, interpreters and Language Teachers (BKVTF) calls on the government in a press release on 'is at last and urgently to consider the statute of the sworn translators and interpreters, who with increasing globalisation and increasingly open borders will become increasingly important for justice'.

'This puts our country in a very bad light. For me this is proof that the sacrosanct position of the investigating magistrate in question must be urgently,' says Brice The Ruyver, professor criminology at the Ghent University, in the morning.

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