Brussels, 15/12/2015 (Agence Europe) - Within the Schengen area, member states should no longer be able to claim the right not to apply the ne bis in idem principle, under which no one may be tried twice for the same crime, so that they can charge an individual for a crime for which he/she has already been found guilty abroad on the sole grounds that the crime was committed on its soil.
That was stated in the opinion delivered to the Court of Justice of the EU by Advocate General Yves Bot...