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By Ioanna Mandrou
The historic decision on Golden Dawn’s criminal activity is now a fact. For the first time at the pan-European level, a political body with Nazi-like characteristics was convicted as a criminal organization and the ATHEX leadership was sentenced to 13 years in prison.
The sentence imposed by the Court on the party leader Nikos Michaloliakos and other prominent ATHEX politicians (Ilia Kasidiari, Christos Pappas and others), was a strict and fair decision, based on the framework of the sanctions law, while at the same time alleviating the way for some or all members of the leadership team will go to jail if they fail to convince the court and are suspended at sentencing.
Artemis Mattheopoulos, who was sentenced to 10 years in prison, was the only member of the leading political group ATHEX to be sentenced to a shorter sentence.
The court imposed sentences of seven or six years on former ATHEX deputies, who did not get mitigation, while those who received mitigation (Boukouras, Alexopoulos, Michos and Arvanitis) the court imposed sentences of five years.
Severe penalties for ATHEX crimes.
The sentences imposed by the Court on those who participated in the ATHEX crimes were severe, the first being Giorgos Roupakias who was sentenced to life imprisonment for the murder of Pavlos Fyssas and another ten years for joining a criminal organization.
The court imposed harsh eight-year sentences on many of the accomplices in the heinous crime of Pavlos Fyssas, who also received a five-year sentence for criminal organization. The same severe penalties were imposed for the violent attack on Egyptian fishermen (eight years), while other defendants who participated in one way or another in ATHEX criminal acts were sentenced to shorter sentences.
The fact that the court for those involved in ATHEX crimes, such as the murder of Fyssa, Egyptian fishermen, etc., imposed penalties for both criminal acts and membership in a criminal organization, is something that matters. This is because when the court proceeds to “summarize” the sentences, many of them will face the possibility of going to prison and will not have their sentences suspended.
In any case, the decision was strict, fair, confirmed the validity of the evidence of the most serious accusation, refuting those (politicians and lawyers) who for years expressed the opinion that the accusation is fragile and the charges in the trial are not will remain. However, the court generally moved in the imposition of the sentences, in the context of the prosecutor’s proposal made by the prosecutor Adamantia Oikonomou.
Following the sentencing decision, the court will enter a difficult phase of who will go to jail and who will be suspended, a process that will last at least two days.
Source: skai.gr
