Voridis: For heinous crimes and criminal personalities, life sentences should be life sentences

For the penalty life imprisonmentthe conditional dismissal and a series of issues raised by the current situation with the cases involving minors that have shocked the whole of Greece, the Minister of the Interior, Makis Voridis, spoke on the First Program.

In particular, in relation to conditional dismissal, according to Mr. Voridis, what the Ministry of Justice must worry about from now on are certain cases of either particularly heinous crimes or criminal personalities. “We have a serial killer, does it make sense for the serial killer to be on parole? That is, a man, who has committed two, three, four, five murders at different stages of his life, are we going to get him out of prison?” characteristically said Mr. Voridis.

Especially when it comes to pedophilia offencesMr. Voridis, emphasized that pedophiles “in the vast majority are people who, because they have this perverted passion, which is very intense, they don’t reform”. Therefore, the minister expressed the opinion that “there are certain cases of crimes or criminals that due to either the personality or the heinousness of the act, we could consider that in these cases the full sentence imposed by the court will be served. To do it all, yes there are no beneficial provisions either nor anything,” he emphasized. “There should be no legal possibility to judge the issue of conditional dismissal” he added.

He noted, however, that the Ministry of Justice added conditions to the conditional dismissal, data concerning the dangerousness of the perpetrator, whether he has reformed, data on his personality, the risk of committing new criminal acts. “So, he also sees it from this point of view, the specific administrative body that judges this dismissal”, which is very important, according to him. In addition, he noted that the penalties provided specifically for offenses involving sexual freedom and dignity– but also in a series of offenses – with the revisions made by the current government in general to the Criminal Code, they are the right ones.

In relation to life imprisonment, which in the criminal code of our country is a fictitious concept, Mr. Voridis was asked if this is something that should be changed and his opinion was that “in some cases lifers should be lifers.” “If you have a terrorist who has killed 17 people and has never repented, why shouldn’t he serve life, spend the rest of his life in prison?” added the Minister.

When asked if his view on converting life sentences to actual life sentences in cases could be adopted at government level, he replied “society’s demand for an appropriate sentence and as this debate opens up in the public debate, I believe that it will also create thoughts in the Ministry of Justice, in which direction it should move”. In relation to them child rapistswho are currently serving life sentences, Mr. Voridis clearly expressed the opinion that life sentences should really be life sentences.

In relation to its implementation chemical castration, according to Mr. Voridis, such a thing could constitute a mechanism of criminal conciliation. As he said, this is applied in foreign countries as a safety measure of society, in the event that the offender he consentedi to this extent, in order to get out of prison, without having served the entirety of his sentence.

“So tell him that to get you out of prison after you’ve served, say, 20 years, you’ll be eligible for parole after you’ve actually served the 6 years, but at 6 to get that right you’ll have accept this medical act on you” he said. Asked if he would be receptive to the introduction of such an institution, Mr. Voridis replied that “it is something that must be considered”.

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