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I really don't want to start a flamewar, but as a central european, this sounds crazy ! What is the reason for that ? I'd expect you to be released (well, maybe

• throwaway447 3y ago
  I was in a EU prison. I have seen 5 years pretrial detentions with one guy. There is no rule of law. Me, they put for a month into solitary confinement under 24/7 video surveillance when I demanded to speak to the US embassy, since they did not believe me that I am a US citizen.
• qingcharles 3y ago
  No, there were 92 people on bail for murder in my county at the same time I was locked up. They just had the $50K, $100K, $200K .. whatever the judge asked for to secure their release. There were people I was with doing months in jail because they couldn't come up with $50. I had a homeless cellmate with a $200 bond. I told him I'd get my wife to pay the damned thing, but in the end he managed to get all his homeless buddies to come down to the jail and give $10 or $20 each over three days until he had enough to get out. I won that case for him, he was only jailed because the local police chief was a piece of shit and put a false warrant out for him even though he had committed no crime.
• pohuing 3y ago
  It's not as rare as we would wish unfortunately[1]. Though years is extreme. [1] https://www.dw.com/en/presumed-innocent-but-detained-for-months-pretrial-in-germany-and-eu/a-61983097 https://www.dw.com/en/presumed-innocent-but-detained-for-mon...
  • qingcharles 3y ago
    That's a good article, thank you.