The former President of the Republic ended at dawn, at the age of 93 Christos Sartzetakis who from the beginning of December was hospitalized in the Intensive Care Unit of the People’s Hospital, as in recent years he was facing serious health problems.
Christos Sartzetakis (Neapoli, Thessaloniki, April 6, 1929) was President of the Hellenic Republic during the period 1985-1990. Sartzetakis gained worldwide recognition when he performed his work with exemplary bravery in the case of the assassination of the Left MP Grigoris Lambrakis. His brave attitude was captured in the film “Z” by Costas Gavras. As President of the Republic, he exercised his duties with great devotion to the Constitution, especially during the turbulent period 1989-1990, when the electoral contests did not give an absolute majority to any party.
His father was a Gendarmerie officer, originally from Chania. His mother, the Grammenopoulos family, was from Sklithro, Florina, the daughter of the Macedonian warrior Kosmas Grammenopoulos. She was a graduate of the Law School of the University of Thessaloniki and entered the judiciary in 1955.
In 1956 he served as Justice of the Peace in Kleisoura, Kastoria. In 1963 he served in the Court of First Instance of Thessaloniki, and became known as an investigator in the case of the murder of the Left MP Grigoris Lambrakis. He conducted the interrogation without succumbing to political pressure from the then political and judicial authorities.
In 1968, during the junta, he was dismissed from the judiciary and then arrested twice, tortured in the EAT-ESA and imprisoned, without trial. He was released from the junta’s prisons after an international outcry in 1971. With the fall of the dictatorship he was reinstated in his service in September 1974 with the rank of Appellant.
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In 1976 he participated in the composition of the Board of Appeals which rejected the request of Germany for the extradition of Rolf Pole, wanted for terrorist activity, on the grounds that his crimes are political and therefore its extradition is prohibited by the Greek Constitution. The Prosecutor of the Supreme Court filed disciplinary proceedings against the three majority judges (K. Alexopoulos, S. Vallas, C. Sartzetakis) for this decision, which was considered an inadmissible interference with judicial independence.
In 1981 he was promoted to the rank of President of the Court of Appeals and in 1982 to the rank of Areopagitis.
During the 1985 presidential election, Christos Sartzetakis was nominated by PASOK and elected by it and the left-wing parties on March 29, 1985, President of the Republic, a position he held until May 5, 1990.
During his tenure as President of the Republic he became known for his statement “we are a brotherly nation”, which was widely accepted, and for his commitment to the observance of the Constitution, especially during the difficult period 1989-1990.
On December 21, 2018, he was awarded by the Academy of Athens. He was married to Efi Argyriou and they have a daughter.
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