“I learned about the complaint against Georgoulis on Easter Monday and within 15 minutes he had been expelled from the party and the group of MEPs,” said the head of the group of SYRIZA MEPs, Dimitris Papadimoulis, speaking to ANT1 today.

Mr. Papadimoulis added that “it is a matter of principles for our party. SYRIZA is with the victims of sexual harassment and not with the perpetrators”.

And he explained: “In 2022 I had called Georgoulis and asked him if there was anything against him after some rumors that had circulated about sexual harassment, but vaguely and at the level of gossip. He categorically denied any involvement and spoke of slanders”, emphasized Mr. Papadimoulis.

“Then we searched the case, but we didn’t find anything, there was no way to find anything,” said Mr. Papadimoulis and added “the complainant’s family didn’t know anything, Androulakis, Meimarakis, Weber and no one else knew.” , how is it possible that I or Tsipras knew”.

Afterwards, Mr. Papadimoulis, when asked about this, said that he did not know if there were any other complaints against Mr. Georgoulis, while he emphasized that he could not have any other reaction when there were vague rumors and gossip, which was done when the formal complaint.