The outgoing entourage of the former President of the Republic Christou A. Sartzetaki will be held on Monday, February 7, 2022, at 12:00, at the Diocese of Athens.
According to an announcement from the office of the late former President of the Republic, due to the sanitary measures, his burial will be performed in a close family circle on the same day in the First Cemetery of Athens.
His funeral former President of the Hellenic Republic will be performed public expenseby Joint Ministerial Decision of the Ministers of Interior Mr. Makis Voridis, of Finance Mr. Christos Staikouras and of National Defense Mr. Nikos Panagiotopoulos, “as a minimum tribute for the exceptional services he offered to the People, the Homeland and the Nation”.
At the same time it is the wish of the family any donations to be deposited in the Flame: Association of Parents of Children with Neoplastic Disease and in the Home Social Care Center for people with mental retardation.
His life and work
Christos was born in Neapoli, Thessaloniki in 1929. His father was a Gendarmerie officer, originally from Chania. His mother, the Grammenopoulos family, was from Sklithro, Florina, the daughter of the Macedonian warrior Kosmas Grammenopoulos.
He was a graduate of the Law School of the University of Thessaloniki and entered the judiciary in 1955. In 1961 he was an investigator in Agrinio, during the interrogation of the professor Michalis Papamavros.
In 1956 he served as Justice of the Peace in Kleisoura, Kastoria.
In 1963 he served in the Court of First Instance of Thessaloniki, and became known as an investigator in the case of the murder of the Left MP Grigoris Lambrakis. He conducted the interrogation without succumbing to political pressure from the then political and judicial authorities.
His brave attitude was captured in the film “Z” by Costas Gavras, where he was played by Jean-Louis Trentinian.
With educational leave he did in Paris during the period 1965-1967 postgraduate studies in Commercial Law and European Community Law.
In 1968, during the junta, he was dismissed from the judiciary and then arrested twice, tortured in the EAT-ESA and imprisoned, without first being tried. He was released from the junta’s prisons after an international outcry in 1971.
With the fall of the dictatorship he was reinstated in his service in September 1974 with the rank of Appellate.
In 1976 he participated in the composition of the Board of Appeals which rejected the request of Germany for the extradition of Rolf Pole, wanted for terrorist activity, on the grounds that his crimes are political and therefore its extradition is prohibited by the Greek Constitution.
The Prosecutor of the Supreme Court instituted disciplinary proceedings against the three majority judges (K. Alexopoulos, S. Vallas, C. Sartzetakis) for this decision, a fact that was considered an inadmissible interference with judicial independence.
In 1981 he was promoted to the rank of President of the Court of Appeals and in 1982 to the rank of Areopagitis.
During the 1985 presidential election, Christos Sartzetakis was nominated by PASOK and elected by it and the left-wing parties on March 29, 1985, President of the Republic, a position he held until May 5, 1990.
He was married to Efi Argyriou and had a daughter.
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