Sky ECC: Amsterdam court examines French D3450 document
On 12 October the court rejected renewed challenges to Sky ECC evidence, supported by a French investigation summary about the Dutch role.
The defence argued that D3450 showed greater Dutch involvement in the Sky ECC operation. It sought exclusion of evidence, questions to the EU Court and further examination of the evidence chain.
The court gave the late-filed document limited weight because its origin, context and machine translation could not adequately be checked. Insofar as assessed, it showed no different or greater Dutch role than already known. The court continued to apply interstate mutual trust.
The court considered the defence able to examine the conversations; APN records and the account dataset had also been supplied. It rejected the requests and imposed fourteen years for joint participation in manslaughter and attempted kidnapping resulting in death.
