Is this justice ???

The Public Prosecutor's office in the Netherlands filed an appeal on Friday against the acquittal of Dutch businessman Frans Van Anraat on charges of complicity in genocide by Saddam Hussein.

In December, the court sentenced Van Anraat to the maximum term of 15 years in prison for complicity in war crimes for selling chemicals used to produce poison gas to Hussein's government.
While the court acquitted Van Anraat of the genocide charges, the prosecutor's office wants the appeals court to decide if Van Anraat was an accomplice to genocide by providing the chemicals used to manufacture gas used by Hussein's forces in Iraq and Iran.
The trial court found that the prosecution failed to prove that Van Anraat knew of Hussein's purpose in using the chemicals. The gas was used by Saddam's military in Iraq's 1980-1988 war against Iran and its own Kurdish population, specifically during the 1988 attack on Halabja.
Anraat is also appealing his conviction and sentence.

From Expatica: Saddam's chemical supplier faces genocide appeal

The Public Prosecutor's office in the Netherlands filed an appeal on Friday against the acquittal of Dutch businessman Frans Van Anraat on charges of complicity in genocide by Saddam Hussein.

In December, the court sentenced Van Anraat to the maximum term of 15 years in prison for complicity in war crimes for selling chemicals used to produce poison gas to Hussein's government.
While the court acquitted Van Anraat of the genocide charges, the prosecutor's office wants the appeals court to decide if Van Anraat was an accomplice to genocide by providing the chemicals used to manufacture gas used by Hussein's forces in Iraq and Iran.
The trial court found that the prosecution failed to prove that Van Anraat knew of Hussein's purpose in using the chemicals. The gas was used by Saddam's military in Iraq's 1980-1988 war against Iran and its own Kurdish population, specifically during the 1988 attack on Halabja.
Anraat is also appealing his conviction and sentence.

From Expatica: Saddam's chemical supplier faces genocide appeal

The basis of the decision is unclear, and the article is too brief or too poorly written to properly explain it.

Finn d'Abuzz wrote:

The basis of the decision is unclear, and the article is too brief or too poorly written to properly explain it.

The basis is the decision were the facts which were presented to the court.

Sorry Walter but -No **** Sherlock! Since I wasn't a judge on the Court, I'm forced to fathom the basis of the decision from your postings and links (presuming I have no desire to Google up a Dutch court opinion - which I do not)

Re your other questions: can't give you an answer since I don't remember what I've read about the decission and since I didn't store Dutch newspapers.

No problem - should have been your leading response but, again, no problem.

Obviously, the prosecution has another view than the court had had. Othersie they wouldm't file the appeal.

Do you think so?

Do you think so?

Finn d'Abuzz wrote:

Do you think so?

Well, of course, otherwise they couldn't appeal.

Don't get your response - mine was thought seriously.