By Helena Galaris

On the occasion of the order of the President of the Supreme Court to carry out a disciplinary control of judicial officers serving in the Court of First Instance and the Public Prosecutor’s Office RhodesAs for the decision to impose restrictive conditions and not temporary detention on accused of case, which was highly publicized by the Association of Prosecutors of Greece, without being involved in the substance of the case, he points out:

“The provisions of Articles 87 – 92 of the Constitution shows that prosecutors enjoy functional independence, which is also supported by the provision of Article 23 (3) of the Code of Court of Justice and status of judicial officers, which regulates the supervisory bodies in the courts and its content, or in accordance with its authority, Procedural issue in a particular case or category of cases is unacceptable, but also by the provision of Article 28 (4) (4). c) of the above Code, which expressly states that the prosecutor, in the performance of his duties and the expression of his opinion, acts unless he obeys his law and consciousness.

Furthermore, the provision of Article 109 (4) (b) of the Code of Court of Justice and the status of judicial officers shows that it is not a disciplinary offense for the judicial officer, the judgment that he or she is doing in the exercise of his duties and therefore not permissible to control this crisis. After all, in the event of a wrong crisis, whether it relates to the measures of procedural compulsion or the substance of a case, the procedural tools for its correction are provided by law.

In any case, the order of disciplinary action for a judicial judicial officer and its widespread disclosure affects the constitutionally guaranteed functional and personal independence of judicial officers and ultimately harm the awarding of criminal justice and democracy itself, by putting it under constraint, inadequacy of its officials.

The Association of Public Prosecutors of Greece, for many times, assures that Greek prosecutors exercise their function free of any external influence or pressure, based on the Constitution and its laws, but also with absolute conscientiousness, with high, and with no conscientiousness, Guarantees of the citizen’s freedoms. “