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Feelings of satisfaction at the landmark decision of the Three-Member Criminal Court of Appeal for the Golden Dawn were described to SKAI and Sia Kosioni by former Supreme Court prosecutor Efterpi Koutzamanis, who “closed” the much-praised case, accepted during the processing of the file.
Ms. Koutzamani clarified that the threatening action did not subdue her at all, as did her associates who showed courage. “If you didn’t have the courage in this case, you couldn’t carry it out … We, the judicial prosecutors, when we swore to do our duty, we have accepted the risk,” he stressed.
“I conscientiously fulfilled my duty, I felt satisfaction and pride because I fulfilled my duty with independence, objectivity, impartiality, judging conscientiously and obeying the law, I feel satisfaction and pride for that,” he said.
The former prosecutor also pointed out that “some articles of the penal code should not have been amended or repealed, the new penal code is much more lenient.” “Maybe the drafting committee should have paid a little more attention to it,” Ms Koutzamani said.
After the premeditated murder of Pavlos Fyssas, and after disputes of other criminal acts committed by ATHEX leaders, members and supporters, the then Minister of Public Order and Citizen Protection Nikos Dendias sent a report on transfer files. for criminal cases involving ATHEX members. “It’s only been 2 months since I was selected in the Prosecutor’s Office; at the same time, it was mentioned in the attached document that activity deviating from the limits of individual events causes public sentiment to endanger public order and the internal security of the country, ”he said.
“I was fully aware when I received the document of responsibility and the risks I was facing. “The people we were going to investigate were elected deputies, so there was a lot of risk. Surgical procedures had to be carried out, I had to be even more careful,” he said.
“I had to think, and the prosecutors think and decide on their own, unlike the judges … I had to collect all the files, study them personally to have a personal opinion about whether they are really packaged and what crime I am going to investigate by ordering a The prosecutors were ordered to close the cases as soon as possible. They came into my hands, I studied some of them and decided that I should order a preliminary one to investigate the crime of the criminal organization. I chose the Deputy Prosecutor of the Supreme Court, Mr. Charalambos Vourliotis, known for his ethics, his excellent legal training and his courage. The case required courage. We did the work, we did not have contact with anyone, we closed our ears and we investigated seriously. Every night I was in the AP prosecutor’s office. and all the evidence was collected and Mr. Vourliotis reminded me. They found us in the early hours of the morning at the prosecutor’s office, we went out the back door so they wouldn’t see us. 10 days after the preliminary examination, Mr. Vourliotis produced a report according to which there are sufficient indications for the establishment of a criminal organization, violations of the law on weapons and possession of weapons. After reading his report, I agreed with his opinion and ordered him to take legal action, forwarding the order to the Prosecutor’s Office of the Court of First Instance. In the autopsy, explained Mrs. Koutzamani, and the deputies are arrested in accordance with Article 62 of the Constitution, the arrest of those responsible was ordered. “After that happened, I didn’t want to hear or see anything on TV and radio. I felt like I was doing my job.”
Regarding the decision of the three-member Court of Appeal that Chrysi Avgi is a criminal organization, he commented that the judges did their job judging according to the data, not by the people who were outside the room. He described the decision as a reward for all the colleagues who processed the case file, collected most of the material, and acted conscientiously, impartially and objectively.
He admitted that the hearing process took a long time, from 5 to 5.5 years. “In my opinion, this is due to the fact that there was no specific courtroom for this case. We also have a chronic problem that criminal court hearings are not extended, judges cannot unload pencils at 3pm. “And the abstention of the lawyers set the case back many months,” he explained. “For the preparatory process, the time is not too long, one year,” said Efterpi Koutzamani, however.
He pointed out that the two cases he handled, on November 17 and ATHEX, were difficult, but ATHEX was even more difficult because it had to do with parliamentarians while with 17N with common criminals, terrorists.
Ms. Koutzamani publicly thanked her associates in the case, prosecutors Mr. Vourliotis, Mr. Dogiakos, and Ms. Klapa, and Ms. Dimitropoulou.
Source: skai.gr
