The speeches of the lawyers in the trial before the MOD for the heinous death of Zak Costopoulos at noon on September 21, 2018 at the pedestrian street of Gladstonos are completed today, except for the unexpected, with defendants for fatal bodily injury two businessmen and four police officers. Now the end of the trial with the verdict of the judges for the “death in public” of the 33-year-old activist is coming very close.
During today’s 18th trial, the speeches of the last defense attorneys are expected to be completed, with those of the accused police officers. The speeches of the victims’s family’s lawyers have preceded and the speeches of the two citizens of the accused, the jeweler and broker which were recorded on video to brutally hit the 33-year-old who for an unknown reason had entered the store of the first of the two businessmen.
Following the hearings, the court will be called upon to decide whether or not each of the six defendants is guilty and to bring justice to the death of the 33-year-old. The circle of lawyers began after the speech of the Chief Prosecutor Sotiris Bougioukou, who asked that the two shopkeepers be found guilty and that the four uniformed men be acquitted. According to the prosecutor, the individuals acted with violence and punitive mood, but “recklessly”, and the police did the right thing without contributing to the tragic outcome for Zak Costopoulos.
In the view expressed in the court speeches by the lawyers in support of the charge (Civil Action), the judges should change the charge of the fatal bodily injury faced by the defendants. two businessmen in intentional homicide with possible deceit. Also not to accept the acquittal of the prosecutor regarding the police officers and to find them guilty of fatal bodily harm. In addition, they demanded that racist motives be attributed to the violent acts of the two citizens.
For their part, the lawyers of the two businessmen stressed that the accusation is not substantiated, while they referred to special circumstances, defense or fictitious defense, etc. that remove the unjust character of the act. The court has given two more hearings for its hearings, one for tomorrow, May 4, and another for May 11.
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