By Daisy Ayliffe - 28th November 2006
EU member states are set to come in for criticism in the European parliament’s final report on alleged CIA kidnappings.
Press reports say findings by the parliamentary committee into CIA allegations will on Wednesday say citizens have been kidnapped in Italy, the UK, Germany, Sweden and Austria.
Rapporteur Claudio Fava MEP is also set to say the UK, Germany, Ireland, Portugal, Spain, Greece, Cyprus, Italy, Romania and Poland hosted more than one thousand secret CIA flights.
He will say EU citizens were transferred to countries where torture is practised.
European secret services and governments will also stand accused of having “accepted” and been complicit in the goings on.
Poland is also set to come under fire for possibly playing host to a “temporary, secret holding facility" for terror suspects.
Speaking on Tuesday EU justice chief Franco Frattini said he would not comment on the report ahead of its formal publication.
“I am too respectful of the European parliament to comment on the first possible draft of a draft proposal,” he told reporters.
“I am happy to be heard again if necessary by the committee. I was the first to cooperate and I could be the last before the final report,” he added.
Frattini has in the past warned that member states who are violate "fundamental human rights" could face suspension of EU voting privileges.
But critics believe the MEPs will fail to uncover any “smoking gun” necessary to take futher action.
The final text of the committee’s report will be voted on by MEPs in February.
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