52Thus, it must be stated that the decision of an executing authority to refuse the execution of an arrest warrant cannot be assimilated to having been ‘finally judged’, within the meaning of Article 4, point 2, of that agreement, the only ground capable of preventing criminal proceedings from being brought for the same acts, against that person, in the issuing State, or from being instituted in any other State.
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