The Court of Justice of the EU ruled, on Wednesday 12 May (Case C-505/19), that the ‘ne bis in idem’ principle, which prohibits the duplication of proceedings for the same acts, may preclude the arrest, in the Schengen area and in the EU, of a person who is subject of an Interpol notice.
This is particularly the case “where the competent authorities are aware of a final judicial decision, taken in a State that is a party to the Schengen Agreement or a Member State, which establishes...