By Helena Galaris

Guilty, but unpunished. This is the ruling of the Athens Joint Court for Former Golden Dawn MP Constantine Barbarousi who sat in the dock for the offense of the preparation acts of the ultimate betrayal. The court unanimously ruled that the crime was committed, but the former MP should be left unpunished as he revoked his statements the same day.

“The court unanimously ruled that the defendant committed Article 135 par. He thought it was an unpunished basis for the provision of 137 par. 1 CC, “the president said.

The former Golden Dawn MP Found accused on the occasion of what he had said on June 15, 2018 During the debate on a censure proposal in the Parliament on the Prespa Agreement, where he urged the army to arrest then Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras, Panos Kammenos and Prokopis Pavlopoulos.

In his apology, the defendant spoke of a verbal confrontation.

“There was a pressure at that time that something I had to do because it was a bad deal for the country and this was done in the end. They got an exaggeration of the moment .. “he said.

Chairman: But you had written these, it was not an oral one.

Accused: I always wrote them because I forgot them. I couldn’t say so ..

Chairman: This exhortation in the army you say …

Accused: I didn’t expect it to be interpreted like that. So after recalled it the same day.

Chairman: You had one incendiary reason …

Accused: I don’t think I had incendiary reason