With a strong majority, the Administrative Plenary of the Supreme Court characterized the resolution of the European Parliament on the rule of law in our country as far as Justice is concerned, as an impermissible and direct interference in the work of the Greek courts, in heaps of cases that are judicially pending.
In more detail, the Supreme Court, by a majority of 49 and 13 against, decided that what is mentioned in the resolution regarding the handling of court cases, constitutes a direct intervention in the work of the Greek Justice. On the contrary, the minority was of the opinion that the issue is of a political nature and cannot be the subject of the Plenary Session of the Supreme Court.
The Plenary Session of the Supreme Court was formed on the initiative of the president of the Supreme Court, Ioannas Klapas, and with the participation of the prosecutor Georgia Adelini. The latter was placed on every accusation of the resolution, refuting one by one its points concerning a series of cases, such as the investigations on Tempi, the investigations on telephone surveillance, corruption cases, media financing (“Petsa list”), the investigation into the murder of the journalist Giorgos Karaivaz, but also the wreck of Pylos.
In more detail, special reference is made to the resolution of the European Parliament on the judicial treatment of Panagiotis Dimitras, who is being prosecuted by the judicial authorities for a series of illegal actions, issues for which the Plenary of the Supreme Court was also concerned.
In all the cases mentioned in the contested resolution, the Plenary ruled that the mentioned are vague, without documentation, without impartiality and without any assignment of the investigations to a national or community authority, with the result that they constitute a direct intervention in the work of the Greek Justice.
During the meeting of the Administrative Plenary, the Areopagite Panagiotis Lymberopoulos proposed all the issues raised in the resolution and for each case he made a special justification.
In particular, with regard to the complaints about the non-referral of political figures to the investigation of Tempi, Mr. Lymberopoulos emphasized that the Justice has significantly advanced the investigations into the tragedy with regard to non-political figures, while for any responsibilities of the politicians, he emphasized that the Judiciary has no competence, as the Greek Constitution has assigned this competence for politicians only to the Parliament.
Regarding the criticisms expressed by the resolution regarding the handling of the wiretapping case, both for the investigations and for the targeting of Christos Rammos, head of the Anti-Corruption Commission, Mr. Lymberopoulos described the suggestions as impermissible interference in the work of the prosecutorial and judicial authorities of the resolution on the ongoing investigation, as well as his objections to the assignment of the investigations to a high prosecutor.
In the logic of direct and impermissible interference in the work of the Greek Justice, Mr. Lymberopoulos also characterized the objections of the resolution regarding the case of Jacques Kostopoulos, as he stated that the perpetrators have been tried and convicted in the first instance and the trial is now being held at the Court of Appeal. while he took a similar position on the complaints about the murder of the journalist Giorgos Karaivaz, pointing out, among other things, that the Justice is investigating the case, that those involved have already apologized and there have been pretrial detentions.
Furthermore, the Areopagite-speaker dismissed as vague and unsubstantiated the complaints about the investigations into the wreck with many dead off Pylos, noting that the resolution attempts to directly interfere with the work of the Greek judicial authorities.
According to information, the Areopagite rapporteur concluded that the resolution adopts questionable data and conclusions that have been drawn without documentation by quoting false and unconfirmed information. He added that all of this affects the judiciary, since, as he pointed out, it is possible to give citizens and community institutions the impression that the rule of law in Greece is declining due to corruption that includes the judiciary.
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