In a statement, lawyer Michalis Dimitrakopoulos speaks of a “provocative intervention” of the Supreme Court’s “provocative intervention” in a pending criminal proceedings on the occasion of the Rhodes Town Planning.

The lawyer’s announcement states:

“After 37 years of struggling law, I cannot silence, my late father Anastasios, Athens lawyer from the 1941 occupation, taught me to have” excellent relations “with the case -law of the Supreme Court and not with the presidents of the Supreme Court. I convey the same message to my sons and the new generations of lawyers.

Supreme Court President Ioanna Klapa for the second time in her two -year term intervenes in a pending criminal procedure, ordering urgent disciplinary control At the expense of the investigator and the Prosecutor of Rhodesbecause they did not have the same legal view as the main president and released on restrictive terms the defendants instead of ordering temporary detention.

The above behavior of the Mrs. president constitutes continuous intervention in the personal and functional independence of judges and prosecutors. Now in the three months left over the end of Mrs. Klapa’s term, a cloud of fear will be fastened to the consciences of the judges and prosecutors, if their decisions and provisions are liked by Mrs. Clapa.

Now the fair trial, the pillar of the rule of law, is transformed into the President of the Supreme Court “Trial”.

The independence of justice is not only a matter for the judges, it is a matter of all citizens, in the name of whom it is awarded.

Today the bell rang at the Rhodes Court of First Instance, yesterday at the Athens Court of First Instance, tomorrow it will knock on your door if you are indifferent.

Before they start attacking me for my views, I disclose that I don’t know any of those involved in Rhodes. But I know for sure that if the judge’s essential judgment is starting to be disciplined, the next injured will be the citizen, who is now complaining about non -detainees in Rhodes. What I mean: If this extraterrestrial function does not stop, the next stage will be the phone call to the judge to “watch the case” and there you will be a barbaric citizen who will not have access to the door of the Supreme Court.

I appeal to the Association of Judicial Prosecutors, the Association of Greek Prosecutors, to the Presidents of the Country Bar Associations, to Dimitris Vervesos, the president of the Athens Bar Association, to compete with the public to safeguard the independence.

Finally, I appeal to you Mr Areopagites – who has recently been thrilled before you in disciplinary plenary, knowing your morality, because I have tried with you, when you were new first -instance and I have a new lawyer –