Golden Dawn trial: the president challenged the prosecution’s proposal for suspensions



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The developments in the Golden Dawn trial are rapid as the president of the court, Maria Lepenioti, speaking at the beginning of the proceedings, questioned the proposal of the prosecutor Adamantia Oikonomou regarding the suspensions and asked to complete her proposal.

In particular, the president asked the prosecutor to complete her proposal on 11 defendants who had previously been sentenced to prison and do not have white criminal records.

The prosecutor insists

The prosecutor responded that based on the criminal record, the specific defendants have indeed been convicted in the past for various crimes in prison terms, however, she did not include them in her proposal as she said, because they have served their sentences, they have been released. and meet the restrictive conditions. have been imposed.

Therefore, also for these people he insists on his opinion of granting a suspensive effect to his appeal.

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The intense dialogue between Lepenioti and Oikonomou

The president explained that the prosecutor’s assertion that all those convicted, except Michaloliakos, have white criminal records is not valid. He also said that the prosecutor’s argument that the convicts were not going to commit new crimes because the Golden Dawn was dissolved is not valid.

In: As for Michaloliakos’s criminal record, I never said it was a minor apathy.
Pr: I did not say that. I said about the others.
In: Because that was said. I said the act was committed in 1979 and “minor criminal apathy” for the names you mentioned.
Pr: I did not raise the issue there. Even for those in prison, we have no proposal!
In: I mean the ones with white criminal records …
Pr: What do you suggest for others?
In: I said they don’t have a white criminal record
they have served prison sentences, have been released from prison and are fulfilling the conditions that were imposed on them.
Pr: Yes… So your suggestion is for the others I said?
In: I mentioned only those who had other whites, of course they did not, Agriogiannis, Stergiopoulos, Liakopoulos who have prison sentences, have come out and comply with the terms.
Pr: So your proposal to them is that it be suspended despite the sentences they have for the fugitive suspect?
In: Being suspended yes.

Ioannis Lagos’ lawyer, who is in Brussels, referred to another parliament, a later one, which claims that Lagos has not violated restrictive conditions.

Today’s meeting lasted only 20 minutes. The court suspended the session for Wednesday at 11 a.m. to, under the prosecutor’s supervision, seek any decision that refers to a violation of Giannis Lagos’ terms.

It is worth noting that today’s process started an hour late. Among the accused were: Artemis Mattheopoulos, I. Aggos, Elp. Kalaritis, An. Michalaros, T. Tsorvas, N. Tsorvas, L. Tsalikis, T. Marias, K. Papadopoulos, Chr. Hatzidakis, V. Siatounis, Ath. Stratos. D. Liakopoulos, Chr. Stergiopoulos.

Meeting outside the Court of Appeal

And today an antifascist demonstration took place in front of the Athens Court of Appeal.

The call for mobilization was made by the “They are not innocent” campaign, the Athens-Piraeus Antifascist Coordination, the Sunday School for Immigrants, the Start-up, the Encounter for an Internationalist Anti-Capitalist Left and the Anarcho-Syndicalist Initiative and Russia-Russia.

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Economou’s proposal and reactions

The weighting that the court will make in the trial of the Golden Dawn for each of those sentenced to temporary prison for the case of the criminal organization based on the seriousness of the facts and the assessment of personalized data, is what will give the answer for the assessment of sanctions.

The court’s response on whether and which of the 49 co-defendants of Giorgos Roupakias, sentenced to life imprisonment and 14 years in prison, will follow him in prison, is most likely expected on Wednesday, as the defense speeches continue. today, and you will judge the procedures that will. released after your announcement.

The Civil Action is absolutely clear in what it asks: the perpetrators of the murders must be imprisoned and those convicted of leading and controlling an organization that killed and injured people must be imprisoned. The victims’ attorneys emphasize that this is not a conviction for crimes so serious, committed in the specific circumstances, that it does not lead to the imprisonment of the perpetrators.

Yesterday, the Attorney General’s Office provided its own assessment on this issue, listing, based on the provisions of the law, the reasons why it is not necessary to detain those convicted.

According to Ms Oikonomou, all the reasons provided by law for granting suspensive effect on appeal apply to the seven convicted of running a criminal organization and to the other 42 convicted persons, except Roupakias, for inclusion and to all those who were convicted. Additionally. and as perpetrators of the organization’s actions. According to the prosecutor, all convicted persons can remain free until appeal with the imposition of conditions.

The prosecutor’s proposal sparked a lot of comments and reactions in and out of court for many reasons, including legal ones, such as the one Ms. Oikonomou suggested for all convicts at the same time. She is also accused of downplaying the Golden Dawn leader’s 1979 conviction for a time bomb attack at the “Elli” theater, with 18 wounded. He is also criticized for not mentioning that MEP Giannis Lagos violated the restrictive condition of house arrest in 2015.

What the lawyers said about the prosecutor’s proposal

The proposal proposed to the court by the Headquarters Prosecutor, Adamantia Oikonomou, to suspend all those convicted in the Chrysi Avgi case, with the exception of George Roupakias, are discussed by the lawyers of the civil lawsuit in the Chrysi Avgi case.

Panagiotis Sapoundzakis – Lawyer in the PAME case:
“The prosecutor’s proposal has the same weight as her proposal on the innocence of the accused. The prosecutor argued that there were no aggravating cases despite the fact that he was sentenced in 1979 to a single sentence. He forgot to say that this punishment was that he later planted bombs in cinemas showing Soviet works, as he ignored the provocative behavior of the hare.

If it is suspended, democracy is in danger. ATHEX was condemned precisely because it undermines democratic institutions. The defendants with their attitude do not give any guarantee that they will only commit crimes ”.

Costas Papadakis – Defender of Egyptian fishermen:
“Now that the case is over, the prosecutor has dropped the pretense and has become the defendant’s attorney. We remember her from other trials, the anarchists, who had the opposite behavior and asked the people who were finally acquitted to go to prison.

But it not only mixes the legal but also political arguments of the gold diggers. Ignore the Michaloliakos bombs, the fact that Lagos violated restrictive conditions. We are sure that the court will ignore it again, otherwise it will be the first criminal organization in the history of the country that everyone will have been released.

Thanasis Kampagiannis – Advocate for Egyptian Fishermen
“The prosecutor does not keep the pretexts either. He is a prosecutor in defense of the Nazi criminal organization. There is something rotten in the country’s prosecution when the prosecutor lies to the court that Lagos did not violate the terms. When you say the supply of explosives is of little value. “If, as he says, the Golden Dawn has disbanded, let Michaloliakos get a phone call to inform him.”



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