Facts
The appellant [A.] was arrested by the Public Prosecutor's Office of the Canton of Bern on 26 January 2017 for crimes against humanity, or possibly other crimes yet to be determined. On 28 January 2017, the Regional Coercive Measures Court of Berner Jura-Seeland ordered pre-trial detention until 25 April 2017. On 3 February 2017, the Office of the Attorney General (BA) took over the criminal investigation. The pre-trial detention was subsequently extended until 25 July 2017. On 21 July 2017, the Office of the Attorney General applied to the Cantonal Coercive Measures Court of the Canton of Bern for an extension of the pre-trial detention by a further three months until 25 October 2017. The request for extension of detention was granted by decision of 31 July 2017. By decision of 29 August 2017, the Appeals Chamber of the Federal Criminal Court dismissed the appeal by [A.] against this extension.
Considerations
The Federal Supreme Court examines whether, based on the results of the investigation so far, there are sufficiently concrete indications of a crime or misdemeanour and the involvement of the appellant in this act, so that the judicial authorities were able to affirm the existence of a strong suspicion of an offence with reasonable grounds. In its judgment of 16 August 2017, the Federal Supreme Court affirmed the strong suspicion of an offence, as the UN Torture Report and the Report of the UN Special Rapporteur on Extrajudicial, Summary or Arbitrary Executions provide concrete indications of a systematic approach against the civilian population in Gambia. Even though the Office of the Attorney General is still conducting intensive investigations, there are already concrete grounds for suspicion that justify the continuation of the pre-trial detention.
To the extent that the appellant…