Key legal question
Whether the Federal Office correctly held that Appenzell Ausserrhoden, not Bern, was territorially competent to handle the transfer/execution request.
Extracted holding
The decisive factor was the detainee's Swiss domicile at the relevant time; the evidence supported domicile in Appenzell Ausserrhoden, so that canton was competent.
Extracted reasoning
For foreign offenses the place of domicile governs, subsidiarily the canton of origin. The relevant time was the arrest, not the later transmission of the request, because imprisonment in Spain did not create a new domicile. The court found weighty indications of a center of life in Speicher: long-standing registration, rented apartment, social welfare residence, and no convincing evidence of a stronger link elsewhere.