Application for appeal of the first instance decision based on which the two defendants were acquitted by a majorityfor the murder of the journalist George Karaivaz, the lawyers of his mother and sister Roi Pavleas and Spyros Haritatos testified to the prosecutor of the Supreme Court.

The advocates of the family of the murdered journalist today visited the Prosecutor of the Supreme Court, Georgia Adelini, and as they emphasized, in their statements, leaving the courthouse, the highest prosecutor informed them that she has already intervened ex officio and has assigned a deputy prosecutor of the Supreme Court to consider the possibility of an appeal against the first-instance acquittal decision.

In their application, the lawyers of the journalist’s mother and sister state that the decision of the MOD “suffers from absolute invalidity and a violation of the publicity of the trial, because, as the prosecutor of the seat also found and it has been recorded in the minutes, the readable relevant 33 that was on a cd has been destroyed. However, the court considered, wrongly, that even if destroyed it can be considered as read. Therefore, the publicity of the procedure according to article 510 par.1 item was violated. A and C’ of the Penal Code and the contested decision is attributed to its violation according to article 171 par.1 paragraph d of the Penal Code. of absolute invalidity during the proceedings in the audience and of the violation of the publicity of the proceedings.”

They also emphasize that the trial court decision suffers from “lack of special justification required by the Constitution”, adding how “the required by the provisions of articles 93 par.3 of the Constitution and 139 of the C.P.D. special and detailed justification of the decision, not only in the judgment of guilt or innocence, but also includes the mention of the evidence, from which the court was led to its judgment…”