The trial is likely to be postponed, as one of the two defendants will submit a request to the court.
Before the Joint Jury Court of Appeal, the trial has been set to begin today for the heinous death, after he was brutally beaten by two citizens, of Zak Kostopoulos on the sidewalk of Gladstonos Street at noon on September 21, 2018.
The 80-year-old jeweler Spyridon Dimopoulos and the 63-year-old broker Athanasios Hortarias will be charged in the second degree for the case, who have been convicted in the first degree for fatal bodily harm by forgery, to 10 years in prison each.
The trial is likely to be postponed, as one of the two defendants will submit a request to the court.
The two accused shopkeepers are free, as the jeweler is under house arrest due to his age, while his co-accused who was sent to prison after the first instance decision he is free on parole granted last July after about two months of construction. For the broker’s release from prison, an appeal was filed, the discussion of which at the Areio Pagos has been postponed until January 25.
The 33-year-old activist, according to the will of the Misdemeanor Council, on September 21, 2018 at 2:30 in the afternoon “entered for an unknown reason” the jewelry store of the 80-year-old jeweler on Gladstonos Street whose door was unsecured by the owner due to his short absence . The victim, according to the case file, was overexcited and when the door “locked” and he could not get out, he started hitting the glass door first with a fire extinguisher and then the lower level of the display case which was shattered. When the victim tried to crawl out of there, he was repeatedly hit on the head and body by the jeweler and the 63-year-old broker.
The shocking death of Zak Kostopoulos, who was brutally beaten, was recorded and aired in dozens of media, causing reactions in thousands of citizens. According to the forensic report, the successive severe blows received by the 33-year-old “contributed to the induction of organic stress, which in turn caused the ischemic-type lesions of the myocardium that were the final cause of death.”
In the court of first instance, four police officers who had rushed to the scene and were recorded trying to handcuff the almost half-dead 33-year-old man with violent movements were also accused in the case, who were acquitted by a majority of 4 to 3.
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