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The sentences in the Golden Dawn trial were announced by the president of the court, Maria Lepenioti.
In particular, it announced life imprisonment for Giorgos Roupakias for the murder of Pavlos Fyssas and an additional 10-year sentence for joining the ATHEX criminal organization.
The accomplices were sentenced to six to seven years in prison and additional sentences of five years for participating in the criminal organization.
The president of the court imposed on the leadership of ATHEX, that is, Nikos Michaloliakos and the deputies who have been convicted of leading a criminal organization, Elias Kasidiaris, Ioannis Lagos, Christos Pappas, Elias Panagiotaros and George Germeni, 13 years in prison. Artemis Mattheopoulos was sentenced to ten years. Those who were mere members and had no mitigation were sentenced to between five and seven years. For parliamentarians who had mitigating penalties, the sentence is five years with additional penalties depending on whether they had to face other crimes.
This is a strict decision that moved within the limits proposed by the prosecutor.
The decision on the sentences completes a judicial process that lasted five and a half years and completely marked the decision of our political system to confront the Nazi phenomenon.
The court’s decision, whose importance far exceeds the Greek data, closes the great chapter of the ATHEX criminal action trial, after the severe court ruling on the guilt of its political executives, which was tried by the court. criminal organization.
The court will now enter the most difficult and important part of the trial, in which the accused, who have been sentenced to harsh penalties, will go to prison and who will be suspended, until they are tried in the second instance.
