WILLEMSTAD - Lawyer Marius Römer filed a petition for a lawsuit today, in which Prime Minister Emily de Jongh-Elhage demands that Island Council-member Helmin Wiels (Pueblo Soberano) rectifies his statement about her.
Wiels said on December 15 that the premier had said that ‘documents will be signed even if people have to die'. Wiels says that he has based his statement on sources around the premier and that he has no intention to rectify. December 15 was the day of the Round Table Conference (RTC) and of the manifestation of the three lawyers and Aliansa Patriótiko. When the groups met each other in front of the main entrance of the WTC, the riot police wedged them apart, which resulted in the arrest of five people, including Wiels and Member of Parliament Dwigno Puriel (MAN).
Wiels told the protestors during the manifestation what the premier had said. Aliansa Patriótiko does not agree with the arrangements, for which was signed during the RTC and considers it as submission of the autonomy to the Netherlands. The protestors that participated in the march of the lawyers are also not in agreement with the path taken to the new, political structure, but there set-up is more moderate.
Prime Minister De Jongh-Elhage says that she does not accept Wiels' statements. "I have never said and will never say such thing. You must be able to take a lot as politician; the bigger they are, the harder they fall; but this goes too far."
Marius Römer was her personal preference to assist her. He is in the legal profession for 25 years already, but is not popular as defamation and rectification specialist. But he is a flamboyant person in the courtroom. He is not afraid to fight long-windedness and emotions and does not wander off the original facts in a case. Expectations are that he will therefore go into full consideration of the person Helmin Wiels and his extreme statements in his radio program Konsenshi Sivil that can be listened at via internet after having been taken off Top FM earlier this year. There is no doubt that Römer's defense will get extensive press coverage, because the interest for such rectification cases of politicians is usually very big.
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