Three defense attorneys were appointed ex officio by the Joint Jury Court to defend Roula Pispirigou in the trial for the homicide and attempted homicide of her 9-year-old daughter, Georgina Daskalaki.

The defendant is preparing to apologize to the MOD for what she is accused of doing to the detriment of her first child, which ended in January 2022, while she has before her in less than a month before the start of the trial for the murders of the two younger girls of Malena and Iris.

The court earlier refused to stop the trial so that until now R. Pispirigou’s lawyer, Alexis Kougias, could declare his final decision as to whether or not he will continue to defend her in the trial, an intention he stated he wishes to discuss with the DSA .

Mr. Kouya’s departure from the courtroom was taken as his resignation and after a question to the accused, the court proceeded to appoint counsel ex officio.

The new advocates, whose appointment was accepted by 35 years oldwill be informed of the case file and if they are ready, the trial will continue at the scheduled hearing on October 10, when the 35-year-old will be asked to publicly give her her own version for the charges he faces.

If the appointed advocates declare themselves unprepared, the court will grant a new trial for the defendant’s plea.

What Alexis Kougias says in a Press Release

In the meantime, in a press release issued by the Alexis Kouya Law Office, after stating his position on what they received today in court, he emphasizes:

“For the above reasons, the only procedural way out I had was my “formal” resignation, so that the apology of Ms. accused would be canceled and thus give me the time to decide by Thursday whether I will remain in the defense of Ms. accused or to submit for the first time in my career a request to exclude the biased regular Judges. This is the reality and let’s not rush to draw conclusions.”

According to Mr. Kougias from the examination of specific witnesses (including the professor of Toxicology Aristidis Tsatsakis and the medical examiners Christos Kravvaritis and Ouranias Dimakopoulos) and “mainly after the re-examination of the regular medical examiner of Athens Sotiris Bouzianis, all of whom were categorical that the Ms. Pispirigou is completely innocent of all the charges she is facing and that the method with a new machine, with which the toxicologist Raikos from Thessaloniki allegedly determined the allegedly fatal dose of ketamine, is completely unknown worldwide, it became necessary, as requested by the medical examiner Bouzianis, to be summoned and testify as witnesses, so that there is no doubt about the innocence of Ms. accused, which was proven by all the examined scientists, the professor of pathological anatomy Stamatios Theocharis and the toxicologist Ioanna Lefkidou”.

According to the criminologist, who reiterates his position that the case is “the biggest judicial scandal since the foundation of the Greek state”, today the court denied his request “with summary procedures and without any legal and substantial justification”.

The press release also states the following:

“It should be noted that until now even nurses from various hospitals, where Georgina was treated, have been summoned and testified to the Court, just to be asked if the accused was crying or not crying or if she was upset when she faced the drama of 7 months of her child alone without any support and thus be judged whether she is innocent or guilty and not by scientific findings.

Following this and because following this biased-biased decision against the accused, which deprives her of the opportunity to prove her innocence with scientific evidence, the only way out, which I had, was to submit a request to exclude the regular Judges who led the jurors in these judgments rendered to me.

Because until today I have never submitted a request to exclude Judges from the audience, I asked the President of the Court, instead of adjourning for Wednesday 25/10/2023 which was scheduled, to adjourn for 26/10/2023, so that I could consult with the President of the DSA Mr. Dimitrios Vervesos on whether I should continue to legitimize with my presence this completely biased procedure, but my request was rejected and the President of the Court asked the accused to apologize, completely unprepared and without prior consultation with me which is standard practice in the Courts.

For the above reasons, the only procedural way out I had was my “formal” resignation, so that the apology of Ms. accused would be canceled and thus give me the time to decide by Thursday whether I will remain in the defense of Ms. accused or and to submit for the first time in my career a request to exclude the biased regular Judges. This is the reality and let’s not jump to conclusions. Never in my career to this day in thousands of cases have I left any accused defenseless”.