Labour TD concerned if Dublin man will receive fair trial over damage to Israeli-owned arms factory
Labour TD Duncan Smith has expressed grave concerns about the right to a fair trial and due process for 32-year-old Dubliner Daniel Tatlow-Devally and four Berlin-based activists charged with trespassing and an estimated €1 million in criminal damage to an Israeli-owned arms factory in Ulm.
Smith and a number of TDs and Senators are travelling to Stuttgart for the trial.
“We're traveling because we have grave concerns about the right to a fair trial and due process for this group, including Daniel, by the German authorities,” he told RTÉ radio’s Morning Ireland.
“This is a matter we've raised in the Dáil through parliamentary questions over a number of months. Myself and Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett met the German ambassador a number of months ago to raise our concerns.
“And fundamentally, we believe the Irish government needs to be sending legal observers to this trial. It's something they have not agreed to, to this point. So we're going to raise that...
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