Paul Watson, friend of whales and bete noire of Japan, has been released

Paul Watson, friend of whales and bete noire of Japan, has been released
Paul Watson, friend of whales and bete noire of Japan, has been released

NARRATIVE – The Danish Ministry of Justice has refused to extradite the environmental defender to Japan, where he is accused of injuring sailors from a whaling ship. He has just spent 5 months in a prison in Greenland.

Paul Watson, the sworn enemy of whale hunters, imprisoned since July 21 in Greenland at the request of Japan, which demanded his extradition, will spend Christmas with his family in , as a free man. « We think this is the right decision. I just spoke to his wife and it was one of the most emotional calls I’ve received in my life »declared to the Danish press one of his lawyers, Me Julie Stage.

At 74, the American-Canadian feared the worst in his cell in Nuuk, capital of the autonomous Danish Arctic territory, dreading Denmark’s decision to extradite him to a country from where « he wouldn’t come out alive ». Shamed by the Japanese authorities, who defend their whaling tooth and nail, the founder of Sea Shepherd, with his muscular methods, was the subject of an international arrest warrant since 2012 for aggression against a Japanese whaling ship, the Shonan Maru 2 on February 11, 2010 in Antarctica…

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