The conditions of release are as follows: Not to reside in or visit Crete, to present himself twice a month to a Police Department, to reside in a designated area of Attica, not to associate with unaccompanied minors or the consent of those having custody and to go for a session with a psychiatrist once a month (this is what the custody service deals with).
Let’s remember that he was sentenced to 401 years in prison, which with the merger became 220 and which in actual years of construction are reduced to 25 and finally to 20 with the new penal code. Seiragakis was convicted at first instance for child abuse and attempted child abuse against 36 children, while the appeals court imposed the same sentence on him.
It is recalled that at the end of April 2020 he was released from prison in Grevena, where he was serving his sentence at the time, but a few days later he was arrested for violating the terms of his release and was taken back to prison. At that time, he had declared the area of Thessaloniki as his place of residence, while according to information, after his re-imprisonment, he remained for some time in the penitentiary of Grevena and was then transferred to Tripoli.
It is noted that in December 2011, arrested for his heinous crimes against minors, he was remanded in prison in Tripoli. His trial, both in the first and second degree, had taken place at the Court of Appeal of Piraeus, for reasons of protecting the minors of his victims.
“It’s a threat to society”
“Nikos Seiragakis is a dynamic threat to society,” the president of the Rethymnon Bar Association, Mr. Vangelis Moundrianakis, had stated directly speaking to the CRETE TV News Bulletin.
On the occasion of the release of the pedophile from Rethymno, he repeated his position that “this man has not been imprisoned”.
Asked if there is a specific provision for this category of prisoners (such as monitoring by a psychiatrist), Mr. Moundrianakis replied: “This should possibly be included in the restrictive conditions, which, as far as I know, has not been done. It’s just that his movement is limited within the limits of the city of Thessaloniki, which is very large and his freedom of movement – in any form – is very wide”.
He added with emphasis: “I imagine that the society of Thessaloniki is taking its measures so that Seiragakis does not continue his criminal activity”.
“This release directly contradicts the public’s sense of justice”, he emphasized and described the development in question as unacceptable, while at the same time stressing with emphasis that “justice as an institution has fulfilled its duty”.
He characteristically added: “Seiragakis remained brazen and unrepentant until the end. He showed no remorse.”
It is worth noting that both Mr. Moundrianakis, as well as his other colleagues from the Rethymnon Bar Association, stood unselfishly and to the end by the side of the families in this difficult legal dispute.
Source: neakriti.gr