Not only did the storm not calm down, after the fierce conflict that broke out the day before yesterday between the government and the entire opposition on the occasion of the acquittal, for the EYP and state and political officials, of the Supreme Court’s Prosecutor’s Office for wiretapping, but it flared up more.
The government, through the Minister of Justice Giorgos Floridis, launched an attack against the leaders of the opposition, accusing them of indifference and indifference!
Nevertheless, SYRIZA, PASOK, Pleussi Eleftherias, New Left and KKE allied themselves, informally, and with their requests seek the immediate convening of the Committee on Institutions and Transparency, requesting the transmission to Parliament of the Supreme Court’s conclusion on the wiretapping and the entire case file, and requesting that the Supreme Court prosecutor Georgia Adelini as well as the deputy prosecutor be summoned of the Supreme Court Achilleas Zisis in order to inform the opposition parties, but also to give the members of the Commission the entire case file of the wiretapping scandal, for which the relevant order of the Supreme Court prosecutor “on archiving the wiretapping case” was issued ».
The head of Freedom of Navigation Mrs. Kostantopoulou took the initiative: “I contacted Mr. Androulakis, Haritsis, Kasselakis and Koutsoubas, and they all agreed that the examination of the scandal is of utmost importance. Therefore, requests are submitted by the five KOs to the president of the Parliament to convene the Committee, to forward the findings to the Committee, to summon the prosecutor of the Supreme Court, Ms. Adelinis, before the Committee.”
The request of the opposition parties is based on an article of the Rules of Procedure of the Parliament which states that hearings of persons (even senior judicial officials) are mandatory if requested by two-fifths (2/5) of the members of the committee. The opposition has 2/5 and is moving forward.
The government has not responded positively, yet. As it seems, however, from what the Minister of Justice said, he does not seem to have such an intention: “The attack on the person of the prosecutor, therefore on the Greek Justice, exceeded every institutional limit. Those who attacked for the issuance of a 300-page opinion, confessed in Parliament that they have not read it for the simple reason that they do not have it. So they don’t know either the evidence that is there, which is described in the announcement as being huge, or of course how that was evaluated.”
The president of SYRIZA-PS, with his post on X (formerly Twitter), attacked the prime minister: “So let’s assume that all the goals of the EYP were being monitored legally. Well, half of the government officials were legally monitored. So, does your cabinet, Mr. Mitsotakis, consist of persons suspected of national security who need monitoring? Target 5046c Kostis Hatzidakis is… nationally dangerous? Do you have a government or cabinet of spies?
According to the announcement of the Supreme Court, it was legal to monitor all the objectives of the EYP, thus also the monitoring of the former head of GEETHA, Mr. Konstantinos Floros. Mr. Mitsotakis, clarify whether the head of the armed forces was a person suspicious of the country’s national security. If so, why did you choose him? If not, why was the EYP monitoring him?”
FOTILAS: “They build careers, tarnishing dignities”
“I am one of those who absolutely respect the decisions of the courts and justice institutions, whether I like them politically or not. Respect for decisions cannot be a la carte. Normally, those who come out and insult, slander the Justice without even knowing the decision, having read its reasoning, must be apologized to. They are the ones who had issued their own verdict before the Prosecutor’s Office of the Supreme Court had even issued its own. What came out is that the State, the State, the Government, had no involvement or connection with the Predator software. The software existed, but not in government hands. The Supreme Court ruled that all surveillance carried out by the EYP is considered legal, therefore if anyone should apologize, it is those who build careers by tarnishing the dignity of others”.
* Iason Fotilas is a lawyer and Deputy Minister of Culture.
KOUGIAS: “One of the top prosecutors and a person of integrity”
“Personally, I have no knowledge of the case file. I scrutinized at one point to turn against the culprits, who are finally referred, but my contact with those who were affected by the surveillances was not completed.
I have known the deputy prosecutor of the Supreme Court, Mr. Zisi, for many years. He is not just an adequate prosecutor, but one of the top prosecutors. And a whole person. This to me is a qualification to be sure that the finding he has made is consistent with the evidence he has dealt with. Since he ruled that there are no responsibilities for government officials and Mr. Dimitriadis, I have nothing to question his judgment.
As for the great political noise that has been raised and the strong reactions of certain political formations, I would like to give a piece of advice to everyone: for God’s sake, do not shake even the last bastion of democracy, which is Justice, and bring it to the level of the Greek Parliament”.
* Alexis Kougias is a lawyer from Athens.
KORANZOPOULOS: Suspicion of “instrumentalization” is growing
In fact, the specific announcement of the Public Prosecutor’s Office is an a priori paradox, since it has the characteristics, quality and perhaps the dynamics of a “press release” and not of a legal text with irrevocably conclusive content on a stake of particular “intensity” and seriousness that ultimately concerns the functioning of the state.
Suspicion against impartial criticism and in favor of the idea of ”instrumentalization” of Justice at the highest level is increasing.
Essentially, through the conclusion, at the very least, the incapacity and inadequacy of the state apparatus to control the use and possession of spy recording systems of the activity of key government, military and judicial persons is certified and this is a confession of escape and creates a feeling of insecurity.
The conclusion, in essence, is the multiplier of unanswered questions.
It also establishes the belief that in Greece the illegal spying of key public authorities by private individuals is not a national threat, but a misdemeanor violation of an incomplete pursuit…
* Panagiotis Korantzopoulos is a lawyer from Patras.
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