The Rethymno Bar Association requests that the criteria by which the decision was taken to release Nikos Seiragakis from prison be examined.

The decision to release this person from prison has upset the society of Rethymnon, having even started an extensive discussion about the penal code and the provisions that give the right to criminals with heinous crimes to be outside the prisons.

As the bar association states: “On the occasion of the intense but expected social reactions caused by the conditional release of N. Seiragakis, who was irrevocably sentenced to a total of 401 years in prison, from judicial prisons and the intervention of the prosecutor A.P. awaits the exhaustive investigation of the qualitative criteria on the basis of which the Nafplion Judicial Council of Appeals reached this decision by a majority.

There is no need to point out in particular the legitimate interest of the Rethymno lawyers in this case, since the DSR had then appeared against the above-mentioned defendant in support of the charges, as a civil action, representing the families of the minor victims».

As pointed out by the management of the association through the president Thomas Lehovitis and the secretary Despoina Daskalakis, the lawyers in Rethymno consider that “in any case, we consider that the time has come for a sober, thorough and qualitative improvement of the conditions with the help of which it will be legalized conditional dismissal for those who are serving sentences mainly of temporary or life imprisonment in accordance with the provisions of the Criminal Code”.