“They are not the real defendants. Novartis’s plotting is a multiple and constant blow to democracy and the rule of law. When the politicians showed with their finger, doctors and pharmacists escaped. What has happened to these trials? “

Former PASOK president, Professor of Constitutional Law, Evangelos Venizelos, was at the witness yesterday in the trial of former Novartis Witnesses’ trial for false testimony.

Mr. Venizelos, one of the ten politicians whose “Maximos Sarafis” and “Catherine Kelesi” were involved in the case of the illegal practices of the pharmaceutical industry, wanted to demonstrate with his deposition in the One -Member Criminal Court of Justice.

The witness described the whole course and procedures of “Novartis”, until the most serious “institutional conspiracy case arrives to be judged in the One -Member Criminal Court of Athens”.

Referring to what was preceded, Mr Venizelos stressed that “the House, in violation of the Constitution in a gross manner, instead of relinquishing us (the ten politicians for whom the case was transmitted to Parliament), constructed a legal theory that these offenses were not found.”

He also noted that “the prosecutor in a few days posted my case, but without jurisdiction. We arrived at the Special Court with a parliament, which I have reasonably described and this was tolerated. A case of institutional conspiracy against democracy and the rule of law is coming to be cleared before the One -Member Criminal Court, and has passed by the Criminal Court and the Court of Justice.

Mr Venizelos stressed that he defends the institution of protected witnesses, as long as the legal terms and procedures are applied, while stressing that “protection of witnesses is equivalent to criminal immunity”.

For the accused Filistor Destabasidis, the witness said that “he knew that what he filed was false and testified. Obviously it does not make sense without a moral perpetrator. ”

Shortly afterwards, Mr Venizelos said of Mr Destabasidis: “The defendant had anonymity and immunity, in a political regime of the SYRIZA -ANEL government. He thought he could say five ten more. This resulted in a decline of his reflexes in favor of truth. “

Asked by the President if there were moral perpetrators in the whole case, Mr. Venizelos replied: “Obviously. The persons I had sued, the then prime minister, ministers … the chain is long. Your court has to find the mattresses of the perpetrators. Was you doing that he didn’t know this approach? We’re talking about unthinkable things. Could the accused on his own make Novartis’s fracture? Not of course. In your reasoning, the lawyer and the historian of the future will seek to find reasoning for moral perpetuation. The motives of the moral perpetrators were politically. The defendant’s motivation is linked to his self -protection. “

Prosecutor: A faction such as SYRIZA launching accusations what could he achieve? Was something destabilized?

Venizelos: When they intervened accusing two prime ministers, me as vice -president of the government and ministers, in the most critical phase for the country, they apparently wanted to influence the election and election of the President of the Republic. Primarily this concerned the main bitter and me, who were heard our names for the Presidency of the Republic. There has been a distraction because of the government’s inability to handle issues, including the Prespa Treaty.

Responding to questions from the lawyers’ lawyers, Mr Venizelos stressed that he was of great importance in the “who arrested idea” case of the sailor, adding that “he was not inwardly arrested”. The witness said that in addition to the defendant, who, in falsely depositing, served his own purposes “there was also the deceit of the moral perpetrator”.

The trial continues.