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UK: Italian MEP on drugs charges in UK
CNN
Friday 21 Dec 2001 MANCHESTER, England -- An Italian MEP has appeared in court on a drugs charge after turning out to support his English counterpart arrested for a similar offence. Marco Cappato, of Vendano, Milan, attended Stockport magistrates in Greater Manchester, on Friday, after having been arrested for possession of cannabis, the Press Association reported. Cappato had presented himself outside the town's police station the day before clutching a small amount of the drug. He had been in the town to back his English counterpart, Chris Davies, who was bailed on a similar offence on Thursday. Davies, North West MEP, had been arrested on Saturday during a protest over what he called Britain's "ridiculous" drug laws. Cappato, 30, a member of Italy's Radical Party, who spent the night in custody, spoke only to confirm his name and address and to elect trial by jury during the five-minute hearing. He was released on unconditional bail to appear at the court on January 29. Davies had also been remanded on unconditional bail. Britain's Home Secretary David Blunkett told a Commons committee in October of his wish to re-classify cannabis from a class 'B' to a class 'C' drug, putting it on a par with anabolic steroids. The plan has yet to become law.
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