Tension in the trial of Korkoneas – Prosecutor: He was not worth the mitigation given to him

He adjourned the hearing on Thursday afternoon Mixed Jury Court of Appeal (MOE) of Lamia in which the case of the Special Guard has been introduced and discussed Epameinonda Korkonea for the murder of a 15-year-old Alexis Grigoropoulos. A while ago, the Prosecutor of the Court of Appeals of Lamia, Mr. Stavros Bandoudakis, finished his speech by standing one by one at the points of the indictment, rejecting the excuses such that “He was anxious about EDE” saying at the same time that “Mr. Korkoneas should have been anxious about some other things.”

Analyzing the events of that day, he said that “Korkoneas did not deserve the relief given to him” and concluded by asking for his guilt “for intentional homicide, with immediate deceit and in a calm state of mind”. After the speech of the Prosecutor of the Court of Appeals of Lamia and the termination of the trial Mr. Nikos Konstantopoulos commented that “The speech of the Prosecutor is a response to all those who mobilized the mechanisms to give the mitigation to Korkoneas …”. From the morning, the process was adventurous as it developed in the Mixed Jury Court of Appeal of Lamia.

Present Zoe and Nikos Konstantopoulos despite the fact that the court had decided yesterday that they could not participate in the hearing, they persistently requested their participation. At the same time, they persistently asked to submit in the minutes a text with their objections, the registration of which was denied by the court. The lawyers of Alexandros Grigoropoulos’s family asked the court to decide again in full whether or not they have the right to be present and participate. requesting to discuss the appeal for exclusion of the court and the Prosecutor from the specific trial without such a thing being accepted.

The tension that erupted several times made the judges stop the development of the case and withdraw. In fact, the Bar Association of Lamia announced abstention for its members members in the Chamber of Commerce of Lamia as according to the president of the Bar Association Mr. Thanasis Makrygiannis “is a necessary move of the Board of the Bar Association of Lamia to protect the lawyers of others which follow from the specific “while he clarified that this abstention does not affect the development of the specific trial.

The process will be repeated on June 28 at 9:00 in the morning and will begin with the speech of the two defense lawyers of Korkoneas.