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Queues formed early in the morning outside the rental mortgage office Athens on Aristotelous Street at the “premiere” of the reopening of these services. At the same time, with a thermometer, lawyers, citizens and judicial officials enter the Magistrates Court.
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Watch a video of the thermometer outside the Magistrates Court
The citizens and lawyers gathered outside the building, in fact, in several cases did not keep their safe distances.
So they rushed to the area DIAS Police Officers and Municipal Police, which are sufficient in recommendations and reminders to observe safety distances.
Thermometry in the court of first instance in Athens
As of today, the Red Cross is entering the services of the Athens Court of First Instance with thermometers by Red Cross teams, while the number of people entering the wards is limited. Today, the first day of the resumption of the operation of the specific services, the assistance of people in these services, while the lawyers of Athens, as well as judicial employees in the courts of Maroussi, Acharnes, Elefsina, Kallithea , Kropia, Iliou abstain from their duties. , Lavriou, N. Ionias, Marathonos, Megaron, Peristeri and Chalandri. Lawyers and judicial officials have expressed skepticism about the protection measures announced in court to protect public health.
In fact, at a meeting held at the Athens Court of First Instance, the President of the Plenary Session of the Bar Associations Dimitris Vervesos, the President of the Federation of Greek Judicial Officials Georgios Diamantis and the President of the Association of Employees Judicial Offices of local Public Officials of the Magistrates Courts and Mortgage Offices to verify the situation regarding compliance with the protection measures provided by law.
Both lawyers and judicial officials find “loopholes” in the measures taken to gradually return to the judiciary. The problems are identified, according to a joint statement, primarily in mortgage offices and regional magistrates’ courts, and are related to a “total lack of protection by a (police) force” at court entrances. . In fact, until yesterday afternoon, lawyers and judicial officials stated that they had no information on the existence of police or security agents in the courts to comply with the EODY directive for the presence within the facilities of a person for every 10 square meters. and maintaining a distance of 1.5 meters.
For his part, however, the Minister of Justice, Konstantinos Tsiaras, in an interview yesterday, on ERT, stressed that the competent national committee has taken all necessary measures for the reopening of the courts. “We are supplying medical supplies to both the mortgage offices and the courts of first instance, as well as the magistrates’ courts,” Tsiaras said, adding: “We ensure that there is security so that there is order in the large mortgage offices of the country and everything we are asked to do. ” But, of course, also in the Magistrates’ Courts, where we know that there is a multitude. “The Minister of Justice did not fail to emphasize the individual responsibility of all for compliance with the measures.
The status of the current reopening of the Athens Magistrates Court regarding compliance with the protection measures is described in a relevant announcement issued by the Chairman of the Board of Directors of Eleni Zachariadou. According to the announcement, entrance to the building is done after thermal measurement, as reflected in the photos on protothema.gr, while the use of a mask is mandatory for all (judges, judicial officials, lawyers and citizens) to wear of a mask and antiseptic.
In addition, it is mandatory to disinfect your hands with disinfectants that will be available at the entrance and other areas of the Magistrates Court, before entering offices or courtrooms. In addition, everyone must maintain a mandatory distance of at least 1.5 meters from each other, while one person for every 10 square meters will enter offices or courtrooms. Five men from a private security company will oversee safe distances and, more generally, movement in court.
What do the prosecutors want from Tsiaras?
The reopening of all courts with secure conditions is also of great concern to the Union of Greek Prosecutors, which has asked the Minister of Justice to take the following measures:
(A) the installation of transparent dividers in the courtrooms (both in the seats and in the seats of the lawyers) and in the secretarial support services (which come into contact with the public) of all the courts and prosecutors in the country ,
b) the provision of adequate supplies of antiseptic fluids and masks for distribution to judicial service personnel, to incoming citizens, but also to the regular disinfection of all areas,
(c) the adoption of an immediate legislative initiative that tends to decongest criminal court records for minor misconduct, but also to speed up criminal proceedings. ”
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