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The amount of 410,000 euros awarded the Athens Administrative Court of Appeal to his relatives 25 year old plumber Nicola Todi, who lost his life when he was accidentally found in the massacre that took place in 2010 in Byron, Attica in business arrest of an Albanian fugitive from from the prisons of Larissa and his accomplice and exchanged shots with a group of 22 policemen and the criminals threw grenades.
The Attica Security Directorate in February 2010 He had located in the Byron area an Albanian wanted fugitive from Larissa jails, who was serving sentences of many years in prison because he and his accomplices committed armed robberies in banks, shops, etc., using heavy weapons.
THE Nicola Todi On that tragic day, he was a copilot in the car parked outside the plumbing depot to load supplies. 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.
Stop there too team of 22 policemen moving with conventional cars and large engines they were trapped in Zoodochou Pigis street. The wanted man and his accomplice got out of the car and tried to escape on foot in different directions, shooting at the policemen, who returned fire. In fact, the abusers threw 3 grenades.
When the round of shots and grenade launchers began, Nicola Todi, who was covered behind the truck, tried to enter the opposite floor, which was used by an employee of the adjoining one. bakery which one of the criminals had entered. But nevertheless, received 9 bullets of which, it turned out that 4 were from police weapons and he died. The cause of death was “injuries to the head, chest, abdomen and pelvis with gunshot wounds.”
The Criminal Court sentenced two policemen to one year in prison with a three-year suspension for homicide. the the police officers were found guilty on the one hand while they proceeded to a detention operation, although the conditions were characterized as extremely inadequate and that during the exchange of shots they did not take care to check if there were any citizens and on the other hand that they did not notice the 25-year-old and that one of the cops.
THE Nicolas Todi’s unemployed wife and the minor, then two years old, his son, claimed compensation from the Greek State for the deprivation of his future alimony, for a period of 50 years the wife and the minor 19 years. That is, the wife asked 258,000 euros and the child 82,080 euros. At the same time, they demanded financial satisfaction for mental pain, the wife 500,000 euros, the youngest son 400,000 euros, each of the two parents. 400,000 euros and from 100,000 euros father-in-law and mother-in-law, who reside in Italy.
The Administrative Court of First Instance of Athens granted, with interest to 6%, from the delivery of the treatment, to the wife the amount of 100,000 euros, to the minor for “the mental pain that he will experience in the future due to the absence of his father in the different stages of his life, when he matures psychosomatically and forms emotional world, but also the emotionally charged family atmosphere in which it grows “, the amount of 80,000 euros, to his father and mother the amount of 80,000 euros each, to his sister the amount of 50,000 euros and to his 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 was violated since the amounts of the damages awarded are excessive, much more when EL.AS. employed the widowed wife as a banker in his Club for about two years. The State also argued that the country’s fiscal situation could not support the award of similar amounts as compensation and that there was complicity in 95% by Nicolas Todi.
The Court of Appeal rejected all the State’s allegations and confirmed the first instance decision. Now, if the State appeals against the appeal decision, the last word on this case will be the State Council.
Statement from Dimitrakopoulos and Makris
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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