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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 8332

1 November 2002
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GENERAL NEWS / (eu) ep/drugs

31/10/2002 (Agence Europe) - Italian Radical Marco Cappato and British Liberal-Democrat Chris Davies were sentenced, on 28 October for detention of cannabis, to fines of £100 (158 euro) each by Manchester Crown Court. They will also have to pay costs, amounting to several thousand pounds. In December 2001, the two MEPs had deliberately provoked their own arrests in the framework of an anti-prohibitionist campaign. At the end of the trial, Cappota declared that he would continue to fight...

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