20 September 2010, 20:00
Ahmed Zakaev left Poland
Ahmed Zakaev, emissary of the Chechen separatists, detained on September, 17, in Warsaw and then released out of custody left Poland on Sunday, September, 19 but promised to return soon.
We will remind that Zakaev who had been announced to international search for involvement in terrorist activities and arrived at the Polish capital for participation in the World Chechen Congress was detained in Warsaw in the morning of September, 17. The Polish Public prosecutor's office submitted to court an inquiry for confirmation of Zakaev's arrest for a 40-day's period. However, the court refused the Public prosecutor's request pointing out that Zakaev had been granted political asylum in Great Britain, member of the European Union.
Zakaev's representatives said he had taken a plane for London to update his Polish visa. According to his tentative plan, Ahmed Zakaev will be able to be back to Poland already on Tuesday, September, 21, ITAR-TASS reported.
"Commersant" reports that Zakaev's supporters in Poland were optimistic after his arrest but to keep on the safe side they had enlisted authoritative persons' support, among them Zbignev Romashevsky, Deputy of the Polish Seim who had expressed his readiness to bail for Zakaev.
Meanwhile, Voitsekh Malek, Press secretary of the Circuit, declared that the verdict of the court was not an ultimate one for the Public prosecutor's office could contest it in the appeals instance. "It is not improbable that in case of starting the extradition procedure Zakaev will have be present at the sessions", Malek said.
Zakaev himself, on leaving the Public prosecutor's office late in the evening of September, 17, thanked everybody for support, called Poland his favorite country and said that up to the end of his life he would be doing his best for the sake of peace between Chechnya and Russia. According to radio "Svoboda", he estimated his arrest as a political action.
