Trial for the death of Zak Costopoulos: The apologies of the accused begin with the first one of the jeweler

The process of the apologies of the six accused, two businessmen and four police officers, in the case of the death of the activist Zak Costopoulos, outside a jewelry store on Gladstonos Street on September 21, 2018, begins today in the Mixed Jury Court.

After 13 hearings, the trial, which began on October 20 last year, is now beginning to count down for the judges’ verdict, which should be expected in May or June.

The 78-year-old owner of the jewelry store will be the first to apologize for what is being charged in the indictment for the death of the activist, while second in line is the owner of a real estate agency. According to the referral panel of the six defendants, both the jeweler and the broker, who were recorded to kick the 33-year-old: , ie dangerous bodily injuries, and the resulting result of his death is due to their convergent negligence (malfunction) “.

The death of the 33-year-old had caused indignation in a large number of citizens with the last minutes of his life being recorded and broadcast in the media. The victim in the videos in question, which was shown in court, received severe blows to the head by the first two defendants and finally ended up while the police were trying to handcuff him.

According to the jeweler, what happened was based on his own fear that the victim had entered his shop, according to the accused, in order to rob him. He also claims that he prevented Costopoulos, when the victim was trapped, from leaving the jewelry store in order to prevent him from escaping until the police arrived and without intending to harm him.

According to the case file, the 33-year-old “entered for an unknown reason” the jewelry store of the first defendant on Gladstonos Street, whose door was uninsured by the owner due to his short absence. Costopoulos, according to the case file, was overstimulated and when he realized that he could not get out, he started hitting the glass door with a fire extinguisher and then the lower level of the shop window that shattered. When the victim tried to crawl out of there, he received multiple blows to the head and body from the jeweler and the broker. The police then, according to the indictment, while he was already covered in blood and “unable to concentrate his forces and showed difficulty in breathing. They acted with excessive zeal” and with intense violence arrested him “not predicting the result”.

The accusation that the 78-year-old is called to refute is that both he and the broker could have predicted the fatal outcome of the beatings, however “due to lack of proper attention … they acted recklessly without predicting the outcome”.

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