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The three-member criminal appeals court trying the Golden Dawn criminal organization adjourned its meeting to eleven o’clock tomorrow morning. The trial is now in its final stages. It was ongoing until the outage the deuterologies of lawyers to mitigate their clients. The speeches were not completed for all the culprits and from this point the process will begin tomorrow, which was extended for one day in terms of decisions on mitigation, penalties and imprisonment.
However, a little earlier, his lawyer Chrysovalanti Alexopoulos complained that a police officer was watching his client at work and the prosecutor’s reaction was immediate: “The prosecutor is responsible for the execution of the decisions. No such order has been given” Ms. Adamantia Oikonomou highlighted, responding to the complaint.
Specifically, the defense of a specific defendant stated that an officer has been observing him at his workplace since morning. Therefore, the lawyer asked if there was a relevant order with respect to the convicted persons. The prosecutor responded by emphasizing that there is no such order.
The possibility of violent extradition
The court, if it announces its decision on the sentences it will impose on the convicted persons, has the possibility to order their appearance. Thus, those who impose sanctions have the option if they decide to take them to court and then decide whether or not to grant them suspensions in the execution of their sentence.
The court can also pronounce its decision on sentences and suspensions without the convicts appearing in court. In this case, and if the court imposes sentences without suspension, it may refer its decision to the competent authorities, which must seek out the convicted persons to execute the decision, that is, to take them to prison. It should be noted that the convicted persons have the right under the new criminal law not to be present at the trial until the announcement of the decision on the suspensions, since they can be represented by their lawyers, a possibility exercised by the majority of the accused throughout the entire the audience. process. In any case, the Police are on full alert either for the violent apprehension of the guilty, if the court exercises this possibility, or for the execution of the decision, that is, to send to prison those who decide that their sentences will be enforceable and not with inhibitory force.
Prosecutor: Discard mitigations in the “address”
Before, discard the mitigating factors requested by the lawyers of your “address” Golden Dawn criminal organization the prosecutor had asked in her brief speech Adamantia Oikonomou.
This means that they asked that the relievers be rejected for them. Michaloliakos, Papas, Kasidiari, Hare, Panagiotaros, Germeni Y Matthewbut also to former members of Parliament who were found guilty. In her opening speech, Ms Oikonomou excluded three convicted former MPs for whom she called for mitigation. Former Golden Dawn MPs are: D. Koukoutsis, Chr. Alexopoulos Y F. Boukouras.
The prosecutor, again taking the floor in the Golden Dawn case, extended her mitigation recognition proposal and those who have been convicted of participating in a criminal organization and have not been convicted of other crimes.
According to the prosecutor, if those convicted of participation in a criminal organization have not committed another criminal act, they can be granted the mitigation provided for in article 187, paragraph 6 of the old Penal Code.
For the other convicts for whom the Prosecutor’s Office proposed the rejection of all the attenuations requested by the Prosecutor’s Office, he said: “It would be contradictory on the one hand to offer mitigation and on the other to have been convicted of murder and crimes that affect democracy. “I am forced to propose the rejection of all mitigating factors.”
If in the end the court does not recognize mitigation, then there is no case to “fall” under the provided penalties. Defense attorneys are currently in court on the prosecutor’s mitigation proposal.
The next stages of the process until the announcement of the sentences
THE fiscal of the headquarters Adamantia Oikonomou He took the floor minutes after one in the afternoon to speak about the mitigations requested yesterday by the defense attorneys for the inmates.
None of the former Golden Dawn deputies who were convicted of running a criminal organization or joining a criminal organization are in court. So far, seven of the 65 people convicted are in court,
The process that began today will be completed in three “cycles.”
THE First It began with the prosecutor’s speech on the mitigations requested by the defendants’ lawyers, who are now commenting on the proposal and those who have not commented will continue tomorrow. The court will then withdraw to announce its decision.
The prosecutor will also begin with a speech from the prosecutor second “Circle” relative to sentences. Following the prosecutor’s proposal, the attorneys for the Golden Dawn members will ask for the minimum sentence to be imposed, and the court will withdraw to rule again. After the court decision, there will be an announcement on the measurement and merger of sentences.
It is noted that the mitigation decision is particularly important as it will determine the number of penalties to be imposed on the culprits. Suffice to say for the crime of running a criminal organization (for which seven former Golden Dawn MPs were found guilty yesterday) the penalty is 5 to 15 years in prison.
However, if mitigating factors are recognized, then the prescribed sentences decrease significantly and range between 2 and 8 years in prison. Respectively, for those convicted of joining a criminal organization, the penalty is 5 to 10 years in prison. However, if the mitigation is recognized, the penalties are reduced from 1 to 5 years in prison. With regard to the crime of murder, life sentences are foreseen, while for assassination attempts several years of prison are foreseen.
The mitigating factors and the historical decision
Until Wednesday night those convicted as members of the Golden Dawn criminal organization, appealed to the justice for a series of mitigating measures to receive a lighter criminal treatment.
Indicatively, the Elias Kasidiaris asked for four mitigating factors. Specifically, he asked to be recognized for the attenuation of the legal life, the previous life, the sincere repentance but also the unreasonable duration of the trial.
Most of these attenuations were requested by the vast majority of those convicted, some of them even invoking as proof of recognition of the attenuation, the fact that they have married the same woman twice or that they have friendly feelings towards animals. However, almost all of the lawyers for those found guilty spoke of a violation of the presumption of innocence of their constituents and stated that they would appeal to the European Court of Human Rights.
Wednesday’s historic meeting began shortly after 11 a.m. with its president Maria Lepeniotis to announce the historic verdict on guilt. «My son you did»Were the first words of Magda Fyssa, mother of Pavlos Fyssas, at the hearing of the decision. A decision with a historical stamp, since with this Golden Dawn it was considered a criminal organization. In fact, this decision was made unanimously.
Specifically, Seven former Golden Dawn MPs were convicted yesterday of running a criminal organization. They are Nikos Michaloliakos, Ilias Kasidiaris, Ioannis Lagos, George Germeni, Elias Panagiotaros and Artemi Mattheopoulos.
Still, Former MPs were found guilty of joining and participating in the Golden Dawn criminal organization: Pan. Iliopoulos, Polyvios Zisimopoulos, Ant. Gregos, Nikolaos Michos, Nikolaos Kouzilos, Kon. Barmarousis, Efst. Boukouras, Chrysovalantis Alexopoulos, Mich. Arvanitis, Eleni Zaroulia and Dimitrios Koukoutsis. Nuclear leaders George Patelis and Anastasios Pantazis were also tried as members of the same criminal organization..
For the murder of Pavlos Fyssas unanimously found guilty or George Roupakias who has confessed to having committed the atrocious crime and 15 more of the 18 accused in the specific criminal act.
For the assassination attempt against Egyptian fishermen all the accused were found guilty. In the case of the murderous attack on PAME trade unionists, the judges turned the initial charge of attempted murder into dangerous bodily harm against three of the four original victims. For the fourth victim, the court reduced the charge to simple bodily harm and definitively halted the criminal prosecution against the specific person by prescription.
As for the crime of illustrious possession of firearms (crime), the court turned it into a simple possession of weapons for former deputies Germeni, Kasidiari Michaloliakos, Lagos, Michos and Boukouras.
Ultimately, the court found 8 defendants guilty of illegal possession of firearms.
ELAS plan
The special Security Department, the Search Department, is now on 24-hour alert, to act immediately in case the Prosecutor’s Office issues arrest warrants for its members. Golden sunrise where convicted of running and joining a criminal organization.
The information indicates that the data of the members of the criminal organization, such as the address of their home, are already registered in the Security files, but the police can know the movements of the members of the criminal organization to avoid surprises that embarrass The authorities. security.
For this reason, an immediate intervention team has been set up that when he takes the arrest warrants in his hands he will move in parallel and at the same time to locate them.
Especially for the seven defendants who were found guilty of running a criminal organization, i.e. Nikos Michaloliakos, Ilias Kasidiaris, Christos Pappas, George Germeni, Elias Panagiotaros, Artemi Mattheopoulos and Giannis Lagos, the actions are specific.
But it should be noted that special case is Giannis Lagos that he is an MEP and has immunity. If, of course, you are sentenced to prison, the Greek authorities will submit a formal request to the President of the European Parliament, who will establish a special committee to examine the request and then put it to a vote.
Michaloliakos’ house is hermetically sealed
At Nikos Michaloliakos’ family home, however, the shutters are hermetically sealed pending a court decision.
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