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Crisis time is approaching for the Golden Dawn trial with 68 defendants sitting in the dock.
The 65, for the crime of the criminal organization. The court’s decision on whether or not the defendant is guilty in the highly praised Golden Dawn trial is expected to be announced Wednesday morning.
The accused
At the headquarters of the Trinitarian Criminal Appeals Chamber based on judgment No. 215/215 of the Appeals Chamber published on February 4, 2015, the following 68 were seated (in alphabetical order – initially there were 69, among They were Antonios Boletis, who died) accused:
John FGM, Dionysis Agiovlasitis Dimitris Agriogiannis, Chrysovalantis Alexopoulos, Anastasios Marios Anadiotis Kyriakos Antonacopoulos, George Apostolopoulos Nikolaos St. Michael Arvanitis Avramis Christos Galanakis Savvas Garoufallakis, George Das Germenis, Anthony George de Gregariospoulos Polygliotoupoulia Markioskioskios Episodius, Anthony Georgekiospoulos Episodiuskiobioskonos Episodes , Hopeful Kalarites, George Kalpitzis, Ilias Kasidiaris, John Kastrinos, John Basil Komianou Konstantinos Korkovilis Nikolaos Kouzilos Dimituelris Koukoutsis, John Liaiaskou, Artemis Thomas, Dionlos Koukoutsis. Mavrikakis, Margarita Mikellatou, Anastasios Michalaros, Nikos Michaloliakos, Nikolaos Michos, Konstantinos Barbarousis, Nikoleta Beneki, Efstathios Boukouras, Elias Panagiotaros, Anastasios Pantazis, Nikolaos Papavassiros, Georgios Papatasilipos, Konstantinos Popisori Skassilipos, Konstantinos Popisorisori Vetrosaliasto , Theoni knives, Themis Evangellia Skordeli, George Stampelos Christos Stergiopoulos Theodore Stefas Athanasios Army, George Christos Tsakanikas, Leo Tsalikis Christos Athanasios Tsordeli Antonios Hatzidakis, Anastasios Chilios, Aristotelis Chrysafitis, Emmanouil Psyllakis.
The decision
The court’s decision on the indictment of the criminal organization that is expected to be heard this morning will also decide the cases that will be required until the end of the trial is announced.
If the verdict of the three-member Criminal Court of Appeals for the key crime of the criminal organization is So it is estimated that “guilt” requires up to four defendants to complete the decision-making process.
If the judgment of the judges is “acquittal”, then the time to complete the trial will be significantly shorter after the 24 defendants against them are brought to trial the murder of Pavlos Fyssas, the attack on Egyptian fishermen and the attack on PAME.
In either case, the court will meet late into the afternoon or evening each day, so that each section of the process can be completed within one trial.
Defendants have the right not to appear at the hearing, which raises concerns if they are absent and the decision is based on their guilt.
Under the new Penal Code, the court does not have the right to order their arrest and detention until the final decision is issued, something that used to happen to prevent fugitive cases.
How the decision will be read
The court will likely read your guilty verdict in each case separately with the first murder of Pavlos Fyssas, second, the attack on the Egyptian fishermen, third the attack on PAME and then the criminal organization and its management. In this order, the cases were examined during the evidentiary process.
Thus, it will announce for each of the defendants in each case its judgment on their guilt or not as well as the accusation attributed to them.
In the case of a minority (2 to 1), the court will also make known the opinion expressed by the member who voted in a minority with the judgment of his colleagues.
Following the announcement of the guilty verdict, The defense of the accused, the guilty, will take the floor to request the recognition of mitigating factors. In total, the attorneys who finally spoke at the trial were 45 of the approximately 100 named at the beginning.
THE “battle of relievers” It is one of the most important for the defenders of each accused as it determines the fate of the convicted. This is expected to allow sufficient time for the development of defense positions for the extenuating circumstances that will be requested in court.
Civil Action has no right to speak at any stage of the decision.
“Slowly do not be afraid” is the message on the Roof of the Onassis Foundation
Mitigation, announcement of sentence and question of suspension of the evaluation of the sentence
Once the interventions of the defense lawyers have finished, the prosecutor takes the floor and presents to the court her mitigation proposal, specifying for each defendant.
They follow the deuterologies of defense.
The court then retires to a conference and returns to announce whether it recognizes which one and who it mitigates. The court is not bound by the recognition of “legal life” only by the existence of a clear criminal record. It should be noted that some of the defendants have sentences, most of them final for other cases.
They have two defendants Irrevocable conviction for the murder of worker Sahzat Lukman.
After the attenuation, the prosecutor will present her proposal on the sentences, the defense follows and finally the court after a conference announces the sentences and the merger of sentences.
the accused to be found guilty in the first three cases, which are 24, and if the court sentence accepts their guilt as presented by the referring panel, they face temporary sentences the amount of which will be judged by the extenuating circumstances that the court will accept.
Of these or Giorgos Roupakias, if extenuating circumstances are not granted, will face the penalty of even life imprisonment.
Defendants have the right to appeal against any conviction that is more than 2 years old.
Penalties for criminal organization
There are a total of 65 people accused of criminal organization, of which 45 are accused of affiliation (20 of them are accused only by this category).
20 people are accused of running a criminal organization, that is the 18 former deputies of the party, as well as the nuclear leaders of Nikaia and Perama. Out of 20, 18 have only this category.
The framework of the sentence, based on the most favorable conditions of the new Penal Code for criminal organization is as follows:
– Penalty for affiliation: 5-10 years (with 1-5 mitigation)
– Sanction for address: 5-15 years (with mitigation: 2-8)
The crucial issue of suspension
After the announcement of the sentences, the procedure enters the most crucial issue, in any trial, which refers to the suspension or not of the execution of the sentence. That is, if the judges will decide that the accused should be taken to prison or if he will be released with or without conditions.
The floor is granted first by the prosecutor, who will suggest if it should be granted and to which defendants a suspensive force on appeal. After hearing the defense and meeting, the court will announce whether and which defendants will be suspended from serving their sentences and which defendants will be taken to prison.
The final phase of the process will refer to judicial decisions on other issues, such as the return or not of confiscated materials, the return or not of financial guarantees, etc.
The court, with the current Code, cannot impose the deprivation of civil rights on those convicted, as it was abolished as an accessory sentence. Thus, as long as there is no irrevocable conviction, the convicted of Golden Dawn are not deprived of the right to be elected and can go to the polls.
In case of unanimous acquittal by the accusation of the criminal organization, the decision is considered final and is not easy to challenge. If the acquittal is by majority, the Attorney General has the right to appeal within 10 days, either ex officio (in favor of the law) or at the request of Civil Action.
Syntagma: An event in memory of the victims of the Golden Dawn, but not only (Eurokinissi)
Before the decision
Shortly before the announcement of the Golden Dawn trial decision, on Tuesday night, “Solidarity for All” and the artists movement “Art Attack” organized an event in Syntagma in memory of the victims of Golden Dawn, but not only .
Photographs of Pavlos Fyssas, Sahzat Lukman, Eleni Topaloudi, Jacques Costopoulos, George Floyd were placed in Syntagma Square with commemorative candles. With Brecht’s verse “The name they gave us always seemed wrong to me …” the actor Vangelis Varotsakis opened the act, referring to the stereotypes that pointed to the murdered.
On behalf of the organizing committee, Eleni Karasavvidou, thanking the citizens who supported a candle in the Constitution “against organized violence of the extreme right,” explained the symbolism of the movement. “It is not just a candle, it is a word, an action, a ‘stop’, a ‘beginning’, a dream that every citizen will fulfill when circumstances require against fascism.”
From Tsagarada, Tania Tsanaklidou went online with the event and recited an excerpt from a text by Manolis Anagnostakis. “I wish that truth and light bathe tomorrow, which is very important for Greece in the post-colonial period. It is a historic day. “I am far away, but my heart is always there,” Ms. Tsanaklidou said, addressing the approximately 100 citizens who had gathered.
Artists from Paris, Crete and Thessaloniki were connected. From the United States, Nikos Markopoulos read Maya Angelou’s poetry as a tribute to George Floyd.
With the permission of Magda Fyssa, the event was dedicated to the memory of her son Pavlos.
“It changed the world, it needs it. […] Only reality can teach us how to change reality ”, the actor Vangelis Varotsakis closed the night, again with Brecht’s poetry, recalling the appointment for the meeting at the Court of Appeal.
Traffic regulations
It is recalled that from 6:00 am the emergency traffic regulations are implemented throughout the Court of Appeals due to the gatherings that have been announced, on the occasion of the Golden Dawn trial decision.
At the same time, according to information from EL.AS sources, more than 2,000 policemen will participate in the draconian security measures, which will be implemented in the wider area of the Athens Court of Appeal, in order to avoid incidents.
It is observed that a helicopter and a drone of the Hellenic Police will constantly fly over the area, which will give an overview of the situation that will prevail in the Operations Center.
At the same time, the police officers will be on the roofs of the adjacent buildings and observe what is happening in the wider area.
The photo of Eleni Topaloudi at the commemorative event in Syntagma
Zak Costopoulos- Sahzat Lukman
With information from APE
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