Denmark Refuses to Extradite Whale Terrorist to Japan

Japan only kills a couple hundred whales a year, none of them from endangered species.

If this guy really cared about whales, he’d be whining more about the plastic being dumped in the oceans, which I guarantee kills far more whales than the Japs do.

Reuters:

Denmark released anti-whaling activist Paul Watson from detention on Tuesday and said it had rejected a Japanese request to extradite him over criminal charges dating back more than a decade.

U.S.-Canadian Watson, 74, founder of the Sea Shepherd conservationist group and the Captain Paul Watson Foundation, was released in Greenland’s capital Nuuk, police in the autonomous Danish territory said.

Watson was apprehended when his ship docked in Greenland in July.

“I’m certainly relieved, especially since it allows me to get home to my children before Christmas,” Paul Watson told Reuters after his release on Tuesday.

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Denmark’s justice ministry said it had based its decision on an overall assessment, including the age of the case and in particular an uncertainty over whether time spent in Greenland detention could be deducted from any final sentence in Japan.

Paul Watson is most famous for dying a brutal death in a South Park episode

“Based on correspondence with the Japanese authorities on this matter, the Ministry of Justice believes that it cannot be assumed with the necessary certainty that this will be the case,” Justice Minister Peter Hummelgaard said in a statement.

Japan had issued an international warrant for Watson’s arrest, seeking him on charges of breaking into a Japanese vessel in the Antarctic Ocean in 2010, obstructing its business and causing injury as well as property damage.

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Watson has had strong support in France, where he has lived with his family since 2023, with a campaign for his release enlisting the support of French President Emmanuel Macron and actress Brigitte Bardot.

Real problems are never discussed. It is always some kind of fake thing, all emotional.

Is the argument that no whale should ever be killed? Why?