Campaining journalist attempts citizens arrest on Lieberman in Brussels

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Irish journalist David Cronin, correspondent for IPS and commentator for The Guardian, on Tuesday attempted a citizens arrest on Israel's Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman in EU Council, he was quickly escorted from the conference room before the press meeting started. • • Interview with David Cronin, on his Lieberman arrest attempt. • • • Cronin explains his attempted arrest ... • • It's the second time that Cronin attempted a citizens arrest in Brussels. In March last year, Cronin attempted to place Tony Blair under a citizen's arrest for his role in the invasion of Iraq, during a visit by the former UK prime minister to the European Parliament for a hearing on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. • • Cronin has published extensively on EU relations with Israel. • • According to the Guardian.co.uk website, David Cronin is the Brussels correspondent of Inter Press Service news agency. • • Born in Dublin in 1971, he wrote for a variety of Irish publications before moving to Belgium in 1995. After working as a research assistant and press officer in the European parliament, he became the European correspondent with The Sunday Tribune, Dublin, in 1998. He then worked as political correspondent for European Voice, a weekly newspaper owned by The Economist, from 2001 until 2006. • • He has also written about rock, jazz and world music for The Bulletin, the main English-language magazine targeting expatriates living in Belgium, and for the Wall Street Journal Europe. • • This video is an excerpt from the official video footage made available via the EU's Europe by Satellite service.

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