The change in the Pony Code after the fight of Mrs. Katerina Tzialla, mother of the pole vaulter Adamantios Mantis, who died at the age of 21, in November 2019, after a traffic accident in Paraliaki
Guest on the show “Mismatched” with Yannis Dsuno and Christos Koutras was mrs. Katerina Tziallamother of the polo player Adamantios Mantis, who died at the age of 21 in November 2019 after a traffic accident in Paraliaki.
She, last May, had requested in her letter “to change the law and change manslaughter by negligence into manslaughter when someone hits anyone with a car on the street” to get justice for her son’s death, as “my child’s killer is walking free!” as he typically emphasized.
In today’s show, Mrs. Tzialla thanked the Deputy Minister of Justice, George Kotsiraswho listened to her and with his actions “passed” into the Criminal Code from the end of March that “from a misdemeanor, excessive speed becomes a felony when it causes death or serious bodily harm.”
Mrs. Tzialla emphasized that her goal now is to press for “the law to be changed for the violation of the red light and STOP, as well as for the change of the KOK regarding the penalties for the violation of the speed limit, because too many children get lost on their own.”
As he pointed out, “so when the day comes when in Greece we will not have this genocide, then I will believe that my struggle has been justified”.
For his part, Mr. Kotsiras emphasized that “I take my hat off to Ms. Tzialla for her long-term struggle, because she did not dwell on the loss of her child, but is fighting to prevent other children from having this kind of conclusion.
The least we tried to do is to find a legally correct way. Speeding has been very much frowned upon heretofore, and we have made a provision which is now very severely punished.
And when there is indeed death or serious bodily harm, the prosecution will be criminal and the perpetrators of these actions will be brought to justice with very severe penalties.
They are socially irresponsible when they run around with 200 and kill someone. For this reason a serious legal intervention had to be made.
It is now imprisonment for both grievous bodily harm and manslaughter and can reach life imprisonment when there is a greater number of people who have lost their lives.’
Source: Skai
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