(AFP) Norway on Wednesday provisionally jailed controversial Iraqi Kurdish fundamentalist preacher Mullah Krekar, following a conviction in Italy for “terrorist conspiracy,” his lawyer told AFP.
Norwegian intelligence (PST) had arrested Krekar, 63, on Monday in Oslo under an international search warrant as well as an Italian arrest warrant, and an Oslo judge ruled Wednesday he should be placed in provisional detention for four weeks.
Italy’s justice ministry meanwhile told Norwegian media that Rome would make an official extradition request.
However, the procedure could take years as Krekar’s lawyers say they will appeal a 12-year sentence which a court in Bolzano, northern Italy, handed down in absentia on Monday.
