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The Athens Administrative Court of Appeals awarded 410,000 euros compensation to the relatives of 25-year-old plumber Nikola Todi, who lost his life when he accidentally found himself in the middle of a crossfire in a police operation in the Byron area in 2010.
The operation by the Greek Police concerned the arrest of an Albanian fugitive from Larissa prison and his accomplice, during which they exchanged shots with a group of 22 policemen and the criminals threw grenades.
The fatal victim was a copilot in the car parked outside the plumbing warehouse to load materials. While he was arranging the tools, which were in the body of the truck to fit the materials, he stopped the car of the fugitive who was with an accomplice. He stopped there, when a group of 22 policemen who moved with conventional cars and large engines had caught them on Zoodochou Pigis street.
When the round of shots and grenade launchers began, Nicola Todi, who had been hiding behind the truck, tried to enter the opposite floor, which was used by an employee of the adjacent bakery where one of the criminals had entered. However, he received 9 bullets, of which, it turned out, 4 were from police weapons, and he died.
The Criminal Court sentenced two policemen to one year in prison with a three-year suspension for homicide.
The Administrative Court of Athens granted, with an interest of 6%, the service of the demand, in the amount of 100,000 euros, to the wife, to the minor for “the mental pain that he will experience in the future due to the absence of his father during the different stages of his life, when he matures psychosomatically and forms an emotional world, but also the emotionally burdened family environment in which he grows up “, the amount of 80,000 euros, for his father and mother the amount of 80,000 euros for each, for the sister of the amount of 50,000 euros and her father-in-law and mother-in-law of 10,000 euros.
The Greek State appealed to the Athens Administrative Court of Appeal against the decision of first instance, claiming, among other things, that the constitutional principle of proportionality is violated because the amounts of the compensation awarded are excessive, much more so when EL.AS. employed the widowed wife as a banker in his Club for about two years. The State also alleged that the fiscal situation of the country cannot support the award of similar amounts as compensation and there is 95% complicity of Nicolas Todi.
The Court of Appeal rejected all the State’s allegations and confirmed the first instance decision.
Appeal of the lawyers of the victim’s family not to appeal to the Greek State
Lawyers for the family of the unfortunate Michalis Dimitrakopoulos and Kyriaki Makri, 25, said in a statement:
“After ten years, the victim’s family was acquitted in the Criminal and Administrative Courts. We make a public appeal to the State Legal Council and the competent minister not to order an appeal, the only result of which will be to delay judicial compensation to the tragic family. “There are many cases in which the State has shown sensitivity in such dramatic cases.”
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