The intervention of Adeline for Tempi and the request of the relatives

I was writing to you yesterday for the persistence of the relatives of the victims of the Tempe tragedy, who turned against the prosecutor’s order by which their lawsuit against the former deputy minister had been rejected instead of the Prime Minister Christos Triandopoulos for the “grounding” of the railway accident site. In the meantime, however, their insistence on this specific aspect of the case caused the intervention of the Prosecutor of the Supreme Court Georgia Adelini, who yesterday ordered the disciplinary review of the Larissa District Attorney for this very case. I remind you that, as we wrote in detail at the time, the lawsuit of the relatives was simply dismissed with a prosecutor’s order without being immediately forwarded to the Parliament, in accordance with what is provided by the law on the responsibility of ministers and article 86 of the Constitution.

And her prosecutor’s order Adeline to the director of the Larissa Appeals Prosecutor’s Office requests that this be investigated, i.e. whether there was disciplinary responsibility of the First Instance Prosecutor who issued a rejection order “for denounced ministers, as being involved in the Tempi case, in violation of Article 86 of the Constitution and Law 3126/2003 , Article 4 § 4 on the criminal liability of ministers”. The obvious.

I should note that with this lawsuit – if it proceeds of course – the relatives essentially request that the potential role of Triandopoulos in the “flooding” of the accident scene, which, as they argue, may have lost evidence that would be valuable in the investigation. The public prosecutor, who dismissed with her order the lawsuit of the relatives without even sending it to the Parliament, argued in her order that “it is not possible to establish the objective nature of the above offenses against the deputy ministers Christos Triandopoulos and Zois Rapti only from their presence in the area, without any evidence of their participation in taking or implementing a decision to intervene at the scene of the accident, the appeal under consideration must be dismissed as obviously unfounded”.

But the side of the relatives insists that it should be investigated who made the decision and/or gave the order to intervene at the scene. For which intervention – I remind again – the former regional governor has been prosecuted Costa Agorasto. In any case, we are talking about one of the big question marks of the case that does no good to anyone, primarily society, to remain open…

“It’s not my job to talk about individual candidacies,” he clarified Kyriakos Mitsotakis when asked in Brussels about him Freddy Belleri and the reactions (which I will insist were limited) to his inclusion in the ND Euro-ballot. He contented himself with the short, but clear, comment that “it obviously has a heavy symbolism that those who are really interested and not in words about the rights of the Greek ethnic minority in Albania understand.” But I stood in yesterday’s revulsion Maki Voridis (in the First Program) which I found revealing the reasoning behind this decision.

“It is a highly symbolic move,” he said, “because obviously an MEP in prison raises a further question about the functioning of the rule of law in Albania and how Albania will deal with that. Well, yes, it’s an issue that obviously raises political issues in Albania and the Albanian government as well. And I think this is to a large extent also the goal.” Win-win case that is. A candidacy appealing to the right-wing public and crowding in Edi Rama.

Let me take you to the wiretapping case now and to the Communications Regulatory Authority. Where pending, as you will remember, the examination by the Plenary of his application Nikos Androulakis to be informed about the reasons why he was under surveillance by the EYP and to check its legality, based on the recent decision of the Supreme Court that justified his appeal. If my antennas are not deceiving me, I hear that the Plenary Assembly of the ADAE will discuss the application of the president of PASOK at its next meeting, next Wednesday, April 24.

I remind you that the composition of ADAE had changed months ago, overnight, at the initiative of the government in cooperation with the Hellenic Solution. However, legal sources believe that it will be difficult for any member to disagree with the application of the recent court decision, which, as I was told, is written in a way that does not allow for an alternative interpretation. But since we have seen everything in this case, I say to wait and see…