With the proposal of the Prosecutor and the admonition of the lawyers, the Court continued today for the injury of the 24-year-old girl from flare about 4.5 years ago in Agrinio during a protest march for the death of Pavlos Fyssas.

The trial it had started on monday but was interrupted and resumed today at Mixed Jury Court of Messolonghi. Essentially, the Prosecutor proposed the guilt of the young man who threw the flare in the direction of the police squad, but it changed direction and hit the girl sitting on a bench in the central square in the face. As the Prosecutor pointed out, the girl who was 19 at the time was seriously injured and now has permanent injuries.

The support attorney prosecuting attorney Giannis Psaris said that the defendant was well aware that his action to launch the flare would cause damage. “Not everyone can make a fight in the most central part of the city and injure innocent citizens”, said Mr. Psaris, among other things. He also said that if the flare had not found the girl in the cheek, but in the eyes or the carotid artery, she would obviously have been dead. Because during the trial doubts had been expressed by the defense as to whether it was the same person who threw the flare and not someone else who was possibly wearing similar clothes, Mr. Psaris argued that all these were identified by the police.

The defense lawyer, of the main accused, argued that his client had no malice and did not target the girl, but the flare changed direction. He then pointed out that it might not have been a flare because the girl didn’t have any burns, which is kind of strange since the flare was lit. He emphasized that there is a possibility that the young woman’s injury may caused by some portion of the flash-bang firecrackers thrown by the police. Finally, he argued that the material collected by the police as evidence to identify the particular young man was not sufficient since it was mainly based on the clothes he was wearing on that particular day.

Finally the Court decided his guilt by a majority after a juror expressed doubts about whether it was this particular one.

The sentence proposed by the Prosecutor was 4 years for her grievous bodily harm, 12 months for assault, 4 months for possession of flare and 4 months for launching.

The first sentence was kept as it was, i.e. 4 years and the rest were merged, so they were reduced to 10 months. Others seven defendants were found not guiltysince the process did not prove that they committed any crime.