The European Parliament must release information on the allowances and expenses claimed by MEP and convicted criminal Ioannis Lagos, who was elected to the European Parliament for the neo-Nazi Golden Dawn group in 2019, EU judges have ruled.
JUSTICE
Twenty defendants in the case over the deadly 2018 fire in Mati, East Attica, will stand trial anew, as if they were never acquitted or convicted, after a decision by the Athens Appeals Prosecutor’s Office on Wednesday.
Ilias Kasidiaris, the imprisoned former deputy leader of the neo-Nazi Golden Dawn group, submitted a request to the judicial authorities for his early release from jail.
The tragedies at Mati and Tempe, and what followed, strengthen the lack of trust which nests inside us and determines how we see the world and what we do.
Nikos Michaloliakos, the formerly powerful leader of the now defunct neo-Nazi Golden Dawn party, has been conditionally released from prison after a decision by the judicial council of Lamia in central Greece.
The Lamia Court of Appeals Prosecutor intends to appeal the decision of the Lamia Misdemeanor Court, which granted conditional release to Nikos Michaloliakos, convicted of leading the criminal organization of Golden Dawn, sentenced to 13 years and 6 months.
A European court on Thursday upheld Italy’s right to seize a prized Greek statue from the J. Paul Getty Museum in California, ruling that Italy was justified in trying to reclaim an important part of its cultural heritage and rejecting the museum’s appeal.
The family of rap singer Pavlos Fyssas who was killed by a member of neo-Nazi Golden Dawn in 2013 said the decision of a court council earlier on Thursday to release its former leader is a “great offense” to the victims of the now-defunct group, their families and “Greek society as a whole”.
Nikos Michaloliakos, the former leader of the now-defunct neo-Nazi group Golden Dawn who was serving a multi-year prison sentence for running a criminal organization will be released from jail, a court ruled on Thursday.
In the wake of the public outcry sparked by the lenient sentencing of those defendants found guilty in the trial over the state apparatus’ handling of the deadly Mati fire in 2018, the Supreme Court prosecutor has instructed the head of the Athens Appeals Prosecutor’s Office to scrutinize the decision.
The “correct and fast administration of justice is an integral part of liberal democracy,” Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis has told MPs in the context of a debate on a new Justice Ministry bill, adding that his government wants to see cases “finalized within 600 to 650 days.”
Authorities have dropped criminal charges against dozens of international aid workers, ranging from spying to facilitating what authorities had called illegal entry into the country through the island of Lesvos, court documents showed on Tuesday.
A premise in the introduction to an interview with the author and playwright Gillian Slovo in The Guardian struck me.
Prosecutor Georgia Adelini of the Supreme Court instructed the Prosecutor of the Athens Appeals Court to explore the possibility of appealing the court’s decision on the Mati wildfire case.
The first round of the judicial investigation into the tragedy at Mati in eastern Attica in 2018 concluded on Monday with the court finding only five former high-ranking officials of the state apparatus guilty, mainly from the Fire Service, while acquitting those responsible for Civil Protection and local government officials, in a decision denounced as too lenient by victims’ relatives and public opinion.
The President of the Supreme Court, Ioanna Klapa Christodoulea, seeks swift processing of Monday’s ruling by the Athens Three-Member Misdemeanor Court concerning the 2018 Mati wildfires, which claimed 104 lives and left many injured, to prevent potential criminal offenses from expiring.
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