By Ioanna Mandrou

The ex officio intervention of the Athens First Instance Prosecutor’s Office was caused by posts on social media, including that of the MP dismissed by SYRIZA, Pavlos Polakis, for high judges who participated in the composition of the Special Court that sentenced former minister Nikos Pappas.

In the posts, in addition to the supreme judges, there were also references to judges who participate in the composition of the other Special Court, where the former minister Dimitris Papagelopoulos is on trial, while in his post the expelled member of parliament also referred by name to journalists and other actors of public life.

The intervention was made by the head of the Public Prosecutor’s Office Antonis Eleftherianos who instructed the head of Criminal Prosecution Eleni Triantafillou to carry out a preliminary examination for at least two offences, that of inciting citizens to commit crimes and violence against judicial officers.

The prosecutor’s intervention covers a series of posts on the internet and not only the controversial post of Polakis that led him out of SYRIZA, for whom the Prosecutor’s Office, due to his parliamentary capacity, will send the case, as planned, to the Parliament for further action.