“They wanted to harm him. “Their act is socially unacceptable and punitive,” said the prosecutor for the jeweler and the broker, pointing out, however, to sentence of guilt who submitted to the MOD for the two shopkeepers that “they did not seek his death”.
Analyzing for more than two hours all the evidence of the “death in public view” on the pedestrian street of Gladstonos Street, the prosecutor Sotiris Bougioukos justified the reasons for the acquittal of the four accused police officers and the guilt of the two businessmen in the area where he left his last breath the 33-year-old activist.
The prosecutor also justified the reason why he did not suggest the change, the upgrade of the accusation to the most severe intentional homicide, as requested by the victim’s family for the two men who were recorded hitting the head of the trapped man in the jewelry store of a 33-year-old . The prosecutor asked for the two, their guilt for fatal bodily harm by misdemeanor (s.s parallel indictment without codecision, with co-execution) and jointly.
According to the prosecutor, the two shopkeepers “operated recklessly”violently hitting Zak Costopoulos from whom they were not threatened, but despite the violence they showed, “despite the severity of the attack” as Mr. Bougioukos stressed, “they did not accept the death of the 33-year-old activist”.
The prosecutor in his speech referred in detail to what happened on the pedestrian street of Gladstonos late at noon on September 21, 2018, when Jacques, disturbed, terrified, panicked by something, according to eyewitnesses, entered the jewelry store of the 77-year-old At that moment.
In the detailed recording of the incident, the prosecutor stressed that the 33-year-old “was not a robber”, caused damage to the store but “did not remove items, did not threaten anyone”.
Citing testimonies, audiovisual recordings and the report of medical examiners Nikos Kalogrias and Sultana Marianou, Mr. Bougioukos concluded that the action of the two defendants with the severity of the blows to the 33-year-old’s head was the one that triggered the organic stress caused by the mechanism. episode to the activist. “Fourteen blows were fired at the window of the jewelry store,” the two defendants said, the prosecutor said. From these kicks, five of the one and three of the other defendant, hit the 33-year-old’s head hard.
According to the prosecutor, the two defendants “knew that Zak Costopoulos was in a state of panic and had not removed items from the store, that he wanted to be released, that he was not dangerous and that he wanted to escape.” On the contrary, as the prosecutor said, the two defendants “took advantage of his weakness and hit him”.
As the prosecutor pointed out the two perpetrators “wanted to cause damage”. “Injuries were associated with death and his body reacted through the stress mechanism. “Death would not have happened if he had not been hit in this way repeatedly and severely,” said Mr. Bougioukos, adding that jeweler and broker “although they had seen that he was injured and bleeding, although they knew that the attack on him with a severe blow to the head could result in death, due to lack of proper attention they acted recklessly”. Their goal, during the prosecutor’s trial, was to stay on the spot and arrest the 33-year-old, a fact which, according to the prosecutor, is proven by the fact that they stopped beating when the activist was on the sidewalk outside the store. “Although their actions are socially unacceptable and punitive, their aim was to stay in the store and be arrested by the authorities,” he said, arguing that this was evident from the fact that they had just removed Zak Costopoulos from the store stopped operating.
For the four police officers, the prosecutor stressed that when they arrived at the scene they did not move “correctly” against the injured Costopoulos, that in the next phase when the 33-year-old took the glass “it became dangerous” they acted without exaggeration in order to bind Zak Costopoulos. using bundles so that the crew of EKAB can act (cutting the bundles in the hospital). According to the prosecutor, the police officers must be declared innocent as “their action is not causally connected with the death of Zacharias Costopoulos”.
The trial will continue next Monday with speeches by lawyers.
“We were waiting for the change of accusation,” said Zak’s mother, Eleni Costopoulou, as she left the courtroom. their apologies it turned out that they have not repented and my mind goes to the word “deceit”. There was something that led them to behave like that. The police officers exceeded their duty and as a Police did nothing. There are still many points that were not investigated, no data was collected, no witnesses were found. This makes them, (as well as the police officers), as my husband had said, doubly responsible for the violence they committed and did not help to solve this case. Many facts and testimonies were lost and I consider them responsible “.
The activist’s father pointed out: “I expected the prosecutor to be more strict with the police. They did not check the mobile phones of the accused. There was pure deceit. There is video footage that he is being kicked. “Will we not believe what we see either?”
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