‘I guess, that the Black Army Lawyer takes yet another round with stamkunden’, notes, Odense’s mayor, Peter Rahbæk Juel, on Facebook as a comment to an article on the former leader of the gang Black Army Mohammed Daabas on Thursday was remanded in custody for four weeks and aim to have disposed of large quantities of heroin to another person, who has sold narkoen far in Odense and the surrounding area.
Thus, yesterday, the mayor once again battling with the well-known defense attorney Mette Grith Stage, who has represented the former gang leader and also makes it in the new case, as he also writes that he hopes that The high Court has a little more ben in the nose, if he gets convicted, and appealed, than the last they condemned him.
Mette Grith Stage has come to the view that the mayor has something personally against her.
– I think since really, it is not particularly nice. On the way to udskamme a defense attorney publicly now for nearly two years and despite the fact that I no cases have been related to the Black Army in Odense for a very long time – I get the impression that Peter Rahbæk juel’s goal is to make it so uncomfortable to be defending for them, which he did not approve of, that no lawyers want to take cases for these citizens, she says and continues:
– Just for the time and most of the autumn I have been defending for the members of the LTF in some major criminal cases in Copenhagen, but there is no copenhagen politicians, the public has accused me of being ‘LTF-lawyer’, she says.
Here press bandelederen Mohammed Daabas prime minister Lars Loop hand Loop was at that time unaware of who he was. Photo: Charlotte Flyvbjerg, the DANISH island of Fyn
Ekstra Bladet has asked Peter Rahbæk Juel, whether he has something personal against Mette Grith Stage, but that he rejects.
– I have no personal vendetta against any lawyers, but if you look at the history, Mette Grith Stage has had, and the way she has acted with its business with marketing campaigns in prisons and talsmandsfunktioner for the Black Army in the press, I think that she goes far beyond what should be good ethics for a law firm, he says.
He also mentions that the defence lawyer, the last time she represented bandelederen in court, said on behalf of his client, that he now wanted to get out of the criminal life, in the exit programme and away from Vollsmose.
– Now he’s arrested and suspected of rampant drug trafficking, and it sounds not as one who is in the exit programme or want out of the criminal life, as she argued on behalf of him, says the mayor.
– It is, of course, a lawyer’s job to represent his client in the best way possible, and it is not her who finds at the thing, but him who says it. She had to refrain from using it, who can speak for a milder punishment?
She should, of course, represent his client. Everyone has the right to a lawyer and a defense in Denmark. Prejudice I am not, says Peter Rahbæk Juel, and repeats the things he considers to Mette Grith Stage have held, in addition to his role as a lawyer.
Mette Grith Stage reject, she has acted as spokesman for the gang, as she was defending for them.
– It is quite ridiculous, and I have never done, ” she says, and points out that it is under all circumstances years back, that she had cases for the gang lately.
– Anyway the sage Peter Rahbæk Juel with it, every time the opportunity presents itself. He has really looked bad on me and doing what he can to beklikke me and my integrity. It is highly uncomfortable, but it causes me now not to stick his tail between his legs.
– There are probably many ordinary danes, who thinks that he is right and that you speak against the chemists, when you say in court that your client will go in the exit programme, to vacate the Vollsmose and choose the criminal life from – and that everyone is better off that he is behind bars for as long as possible. Do you understand it?
– Now, it’s not like that I stand in court and find that the client will go in the exit, vacate the Vollsmose. It is something he himself explains in the court, and then refers me to it. But I agree the non-personally-for that it also keeps the connectors. However, I believe that most people can see that it would seem odd if the defender – which is a hundred percent must carry out his client’s interests – said “everything that my client has explained about the fines, recovery and conversion of his life, of course, no one believes – that the court must ignore’.
– Patting you in the hands yesterday, when you heard about the arrest because there was more revenue on the way?
– No, however not. I would probably do without the case. But I assume the of course, since it is my work, she says.
She also believes that it is completely biased, that the mayor, at a time when her client only is charged, but not convicted, and, incidentally, refuses guilty, the law clearly invites the court to judge hard during a possible appeal.
On the question of whether he as a politician should even comment on straflængder in specific cases, the equivalent of the mayor:
– I don’t either. It is simply a resfølelelse. They must judge him according to the laws they can find. I just hope not that he did not get the luck to look like one that is finished with crime. It is just an emotional response. It is not more than a year ago, he was in court last. So the more should you not put in it, he says, and continues:
– I am the mayor of a city. I’m not a legislative power on the way. I’m busy to take care of my city. And how some types like him is a problem and has been a problem for Odense.
