Accepted the Supreme Court made the appeal filed by the prosecutor in the case of the death of little Melina, as the court of appeals was definitively closing the case at the criminal level.

The case remained criminally “alive” after the intervention of the Prosecutor of the Supreme Court, Mr. Isidoros Dogiakos, who initiated the procedures for the annulment of the decision in question.

Specifically, on November 25, the case regarding the circumstances of her death was to be heard in second instance before the Three-member Court of Misdemeanors 4-year-old Melinaafter an operation for “meatballs” at the Venizelio Hospital, in December 2015.

The accused anesthetist he had been acquitted in the trial court, but the prosecutor appealed the acquittal and so the case would be tried again.

However, before the trial of the case began in the second instance, the Three-member Court of Misdemeanors of Eastern Crete made accepted the objection of the defense attorneys of the anesthesiologist, Alexandra Spanakis and Giorgos Steiakakis, with which they requested the dismissal of the appeal brought by the prosecutor against the doctor’s first-trial acquittal decision.

The defense asked that the proceedings not proceed, judging that the prosecutor’s appeal did not meet the conditionss that is expressly defined by the law for a thorough and fully justified appeal. The district attorney rejected the defense’s objection, but the court accepted it and thus the case was closed before it started. The development came as a shock to the family who left the courts bitter, claiming that pretexts were not even kept.

At noon of the same day there was an intervention by the Prosecutor of the Supreme Court, who requested that the minutes of the court be sent so that the prosecutor who would be “in charge” of the case would have an overall picture on the basis of which he would proceed or not to file an appeal.

Finally, the deputy prosecutor of the Supreme Court, Mr. Christopoulos, filed an appeal, which was accepted.