A 37 -year -old police officer who had been brought to trial before the Veria Circuit Court of Appeal was sentenced to 3 years in prison, with a 37 -year -old police officer for firing and fatally injured 16 -year -old Roma Costas Frangoulis, during a 20 -year -old police officer.

After many days of hearing, the court decided to change the category from felony in misdemeanor and specifically from homicide with a possible fraud in homicide that was committed in excess of legal defenseby negligence. The judges, regular and lay people, also acquitted the defendant of the act of executing illegal shootings, judging that they were intended for defense.

Earlier, In his apology, The accused police officer, with a rank of police officer, said that acted on defense statusbecause of the danger that, as he said, his colleagues were ranked by the course of the course that was following the farm with guide the minor victim. He defended his actions, under the prevailing circumstances, noting – among other things – that the two consecutive shots he threw (one succeeded the minor in the head, injuring him deadly) were intended to hit the tires of the vehicle. He also regretted the outcome of his actions, stressing that this incident would accompany him for his entire life.

Her permissible change in category From felony to misdemeanor, the Prosecutor of the Headquarters, which eventually finally ask for her in her speech. was accepted by the judges by votes 6-1 (He was voted on by an affidavit who had the view that the police officer should be declared innocent).

The defense of the 37 -year -old police officer did not request the recognition of mitigating, demanding that he be imposed, as he did.

It is recalled that the fatal pursuit had begun when police were informed that the 16 -year -old had left his father’s farm car from a gas station, without paying the amount of 20 euros for the fuel he had put in. Relatives and friends of the victim found in the courtroom expressed their dissatisfaction with the verdict.

Through his lawyers, his father Kostas Frangoulis asked the court to give him the clothes his son was wearing during the pursuit of the pursuit (and had been seized in the face of the preliminary investigation), a request accepted.