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With amusing excuses, the goldsmiths now plead with the court to escape from prison.
Today in the courtroom 14 of the convicts are present. Among them are former MPs Artemis Mattheopoulos (who was sentenced to ten years in prison for running a criminal organization) and Panagiotis Iliopoulos (who was sentenced to seven years in prison for joining and participating in a criminal organization).
Michaloliakos … insists on his right hand and provokes
The processing of suspension requests closed with the position of Nikos Michaloliakos’s lawyer, who caused a sensation with his argument.
“This whole story is being judged because he raised his right hand, not because he did something else. We are talking about a party leader. Wouldn’t he have done something to avoid the insult, even from GADA? But he stayed there, at home. Yes They could bring him here, handcuff him, they would. They ask for the head in a Michaloliakos painting.
In a particularly loud tone, the lawyer for the leader of the criminal organization also referred to the Golden Dawn party. “The newspaper is closed. The party’s organ of the party. Isn’t this irreparable damage? They did it. The party, the organization, has been deserted. There is no voice from this party and congratulations to the think tank that thought it up” .
Without many words, Pappas’s lawyer
Earlier, Christos Pappas’s defense attorney asked that the client not be taken to prison, concluding that “I believe you will do what your conscience tells you. In God and in your hands the decision ”.
The hearing was postponed to next Monday at 11 am with the position of the prosecutor on the suspension requests presented by all the convicts except G. Lagos and G. Roupakias.
Mattheopoulos: He is the only one who can offer food to his mother
Artemis Mattheopoulos, who as a member of the so-called “leadership” of the criminal organization has been sentenced to 10 years in prison, although present in court, preferred to let only his lawyer argue.
“He is the only one who can offer food to his mother, who will be excessively harmed,” said the defense attorney, while the former deputy only said when he went to the headquarters that he had nothing to add.
A baker fell asleep and a deputy woke up
Efstathios Boukouras, who in the past proudly declared that he slept as a baker and woke up as a deputy, asked through his lawyer that he not be taken to prison again to serve his sentence of 5 years and 6 months with mitigation. “All he knows is to make cheesecakes and peinirli, he has a shop, with it he raises his children,” said his lawyer, adding that he has already been in pretrial detention for 12 months and 4 months a day, which means that he has almost completed his sentence. until the Court of Appeal has served 95% of their sentence. You have met all restrictive conditions to date, you are not a fugitive suspect. “The damage he will suffer if he goes to prison will be excessive and disproportionate.”
Alexopoulos is a cattle trader
The defense of Chrysovalantis Alexopoulos, who was sentenced to 5 years in prison with mitigation, stated that “it is not dangerous to commit new crimes, he has a family residence, he is a cattle trader, he sells and buys food in the retail trade, his family lives he doesn’t know how to do anything else. “
For Michalis Arvanitis, who was sentenced to 5 years in prison with mitigation, his lawyer stressed that “he is an old lawyer from Patras, he has a known residence, he met all the conditions. He will suffer irreparable damage if he goes to jail, he is 75 years old ”.
Gregos asked for a bracelet
Former deputy Antonis Gregos asked to wear a “bracelet”, provided that suspensive force is not given to his appeal. Through his lawyer, he submitted the application, asking for the possibility of moving at the same time in the municipality of Thermaikos where he lives and in the municipality of Thessaloniki where he works.
What Zaroulia’s lawyer asked for
Eleni Zaroulia’s lawyer asked for the appeal to be suspended, saying that his client “experienced the severest coercion.” “They put her under house arrest, she could only go to prison to visit her husband and the pharmacy.”
Earlier, a lawyer for those convicted of attacks by the Golden Dawn assault battalions, speaking on the issue of suspension, said: “How is it possible that foreigners with higher sentences are suspended? Here we have two Greeks with seven years … “. He added that “Golden Dawn does not have a negative sign and does not mean that all the defendants should be taken to prison.”
Iliopoulos: 13 days after the birth of my daughter I was taken into custody
He personally supported his request not to send former Golden Dawn MP Panagiotis Iliopoulos to prison: “Despite my bitterness and pain, I came here to support my request. I have been detained for 18 months and would like to go free to the Court of Justice. Appeals. 13 days after the birth of my daughter, I was arrested. The most severe punishment is that I saw my children grow up in jail. I ask that you give me a second chance to live with my family. “
A few minutes before one in the afternoon, Elias Kasidiaris entered the courtroom of the Athens Court of Appeal, where the Golden Dawn trial continues.
He himself supported his request, saying, among other things: “I do not base my innocence only on my belief that I am innocent, but also on the headquarters prosecutor, who for eight hours said that I was innocent. I meet all the requirements of the law to receive a suspension. I ask to go to second degree, but until second degree is completed, I will have served my sentence if I am not free. The 13-year sentence kills me on all levels, personal, professional, moral. It is not possible for the court to judge with 20,000 violent protesters outside. I emphasize that I am innocent, do not deprive me of the right to be tried in the second instance ”.
Germenis: I’m a baker, they didn’t find anyone to hire me
Former MP Giorgos Germenis, who has been sentenced to 13 years and 6 months in prison as a member of the “leadership” of the criminal organization Chrysi Avgi, also “appeared” in court.
He also asked not to be jailed until the appeals court, saying, among other things, that because of his involvement in the Golden Dawn case, he could not find work anywhere except as an associate of Giannis Lagos. “I had a bad time the previous period, they have stigmatized me. During the last quarter I have been an external collaborator of Lagos, the MEP, with a salary of 525 euros. I am a baker, they did not find anyone to take me to work … Fortunately now they found this position and I can support my family, I have two minor children. I managed to obtain the title of archaeologist. I respect your decision and your court, but I do not agree with its content. I want to fight in the Court of Appeals.
Giorgos Germenis’s mother also testified in court, stating, among other things, that “my son is not taken anywhere to work, because he is a defendant. He must be free to raise his children. Thank you for your grace.” .
His lawyer asked, if the appeal is not suspended, that he serve his sentence with a “bracelet” at his home and within the limits of the area where he lives in Eastern Attica.
Pregnant and elderly parents asking for suspensions from goldsmiths on Thursday
The convicts began to develop arguments in favor of a suspensive effect in their cases as early as yesterday Thursday. Invoking excitement and witnessing parents, brothers, nieces, friends and neighbors, and even a pregnant fiancée, the Golden Dawn convicts tried to convince themselves that if they were behind bars, they and their families would suffer. “Irreparable damage and excessive “.
The most typical case is that of Konstantinos Barbarousis, who went to court supporting his elderly and blind father to claim that his son should not be imprisoned.
The nephew of former MP Nikos Kouzilos, who faces the specter of 7 years in prison, also testified in court. He stated that his uncle “should in any case remain out of prison.” There are reasons to stay close to your family. He has a younger son. “The only income his family has is from his job.”
Elias Panagiotarou’s lawyer, who has been placed in the so-called “director” of the criminal organization by court decision, asked not to be imprisoned, stating that his client’s family depends exclusively on him.
The defense attorneys and the rest of the convicted persons invoked the “excessive and irreparable harm” that their clients and their families would suffer if they were taken to prison, and used all kinds of arguments to convince them of the need to remain free to the second degree.
The lawyer for the Perama nuclear chief, An. Pantazis, among other things, stated that his client “has offered two more children to Greek society.” It is a contribution to society. “If he goes to jail, he will raise four children who are very problematic for society.”
The two young men who were recently released from prison for the murder of Pakistani worker Sahzat Lukman and now face a new six-year prison sentence should not be returned to prison, their lawyers demanded. In fact, one described the beating of a Pakistani as an adventure.
Among other things, he stated that his client “was a good high school student, he passed exams, he went to the Fire Brigade, but unfortunately he had the well-known affair with the Pakistani.” The Ministry of Education recognized mitigation in the defendant and they reduced the sentence of life imprisonment to 20 years, worked in prison, complied and was released.
Crying, the fiancée of the person sentenced to 10 years and 2 months as a direct accomplice of G. Roupakias told the court that she needed his support to raise her children and asked that her partner not be taken to prison.
A neighbor of Nikaia’s chief, G. Patelis, testified that the convict offered them help when she and her husband were unemployed and unable to raise their children, while she claimed that he had written a song against violence and harassment.
Roupakias did not file a request for suspension
Giorgos Roupakias, with the harshest sentence of all, life imprisonment plus 14 years, was the only one who said yesterday through his lawyer that he did not want to submit a request for suspension, something that would be very difficult to accept anyway for the amount of the penalty, but and the seriousness of the charge of homicide and participation in a criminal organization.
When the presentation of all applications is completed, the headquarters prosecutor, Adamantia Oikonomou, will take the floor to propose the suspensive effect of the appeals. Defense attorneys’ deuterologies will follow, followed by the court’s final decision on which of those convicted will serve their sentences and which will remain free despite their conviction. The decision is now expected early next week.
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