Reactions were caused by the circular of the president of the Supreme Court, with which she recommends to judicial officers decency and respect for litigants
of Elena Galaris
The reaction of his advocates Petrou FilippidisMichalis Dimitrakopoulou, Kikis Pakirtzidou and Eva Bobolis caused the circular of the president of Supreme Court Ioannas Klapa, with which he recommends to court officials decency and respect for the litigants.
In their statement, the lawyers state:
On 12/10/24 Mrs. Ioanna Klapa, President of the Supreme Court, sent a circular to the judges. Quickly this circular spread – magically – to the major media, which interpreted this circular as “Indirect but clear disapproval of the attitude of the prosecutor in the trial of Petros Filippidis”.
On 8/12/24 the Association of Greek Prosecutors, chaired by the Deputy Prosecutor of the Supreme Court, Mr. Achilleas Zisi, one of the most qualified prosecutors in the country, at its 39th Annual Ordinary General Assembly, issued a unanimous resolution, in summary with the following content : “THEY CONDEMN any attempt to discredit and target prosecutors, with occasion of their manipulations in SPECIFIC cases. Such practices do not belong in a democratic state.
Greek Prosecutors are not influenced by direct or indirect threats, pressures and intimidation”. In an also magical way, this resolution of the Greek Prosecutors was LOST from the public.
And the circular of the President of the Supreme Court and the resolution of the Union of Greek Prosecutors is a consequence of the severe, acute and fruitless verbal attack received by the prosecutor of the seat in the trial of Petros Filippidis.
Greek Judges and Prosecutors are neither an ARMY, nor an AGENCY to be governed by circulars.
The action of the President of the Supreme Court is institutionally unprecedented. In the many years that we – the first two of us – have been ministering legal science and the embattled lawyer, there has not been another circular, which essentially “interferes” in a pending criminal trial, disapproving the District Attorney, as it was correctly interpreted by the journalistic world !
The Association of Greek Prosecutors did its institutional duty by defending judicial independence, from external and internal interventions.
There are six months and a few days left until the term of the President of the Supreme Court, whose judicial journey has been BRIGHT and IMMACULATE, is a shame to waste it with circulars, which internally dehydrate the independence of the judge.
Source: Skai
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