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Warner still uneasy despite winning extradition case
... says people who went 'underground' now calling him again
Former FIFA executive Jack Warner says while he is relieved that US extradition proceedings against him have been permanently stayed, he is still uneasy as he seeks to move on with his life.Speaking on CNC3’s Morning Brew programme yesterday, Warner, 82, said he feels vindicated following the end of a ten-year-long legal battle and thanked his legal team for their hard work and diligence in defending him.Warner said going about his daily routine during the case was difficult, as he repeatedly worried about the possibility that he could be arrested and extradited if his legal challenges failed.
“Even now that the matter has been permanently stayed, there is the feeling that you can be nabbed at any point in time. You know the situation in which we live and it’s not, of course, to say it cannot happen ... it can happen anytime but at the end of the day, I put my faith in God and say ‘well God will guide me and protect me’.”
As he reflected on his personal difficulties in challenging extradition process over the past decade, Warner said besides his family, few friends and political colleagues offered their support. He said it was only when the extradition process against him was halted last week that he receive feedback from some whom he said had gone “underground.”“Today, of course, these people are calling me and playing as if we were chummy for the past ten years, and I smile and say hello, thank you,” he said.In real democracies, you are innocent until proven guilty but in Trinidad and Tobago, you are guilty until proven innocent and even then you’re still guilty. That’s the nature of the country we live in.”
... says people who went 'underground' now calling him again
Former FIFA executive Jack Warner says while he is relieved that US extradition proceedings against him have been permanently stayed, he is still uneasy as he seeks to move on with his life.Speaking on CNC3’s Morning Brew programme yesterday, Warner, 82, said he feels vindicated following the end of a ten-year-long legal battle and thanked his legal team for their hard work and diligence in defending him.Warner said going about his daily routine during the case was difficult, as he repeatedly worried about the possibility that he could be arrested and extradited if his legal challenges failed.
“Even now that the matter has been permanently stayed, there is the feeling that you can be nabbed at any point in time. You know the situation in which we live and it’s not, of course, to say it cannot happen ... it can happen anytime but at the end of the day, I put my faith in God and say ‘well God will guide me and protect me’.”
As he reflected on his personal difficulties in challenging extradition process over the past decade, Warner said besides his family, few friends and political colleagues offered their support. He said it was only when the extradition process against him was halted last week that he receive feedback from some whom he said had gone “underground.”“Today, of course, these people are calling me and playing as if we were chummy for the past ten years, and I smile and say hello, thank you,” he said.In real democracies, you are innocent until proven guilty but in Trinidad and Tobago, you are guilty until proven innocent and even then you’re still guilty. That’s the nature of the country we live in.”
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