“It is a very long, heavy talk, to say that I am proud. I don’t have to judge anyone. I have been a judge for almost 40 years. I know many of my colleagues are trying to do the right thing. Of course there will be failures and mistakes. Judges are people too. What I deeply wish and hope for, is precisely that they are independent and not influenced by anyone in their judgment. This is what I always wish for,” said the President of the Republic, Katerina Sakellaropoulou, in the interview with journalist Stavros Theodorakis in ALPHA.
“I want to believe that yes, it is a demand of society, of each of us. Since that night, when 57 human lives were lost, and even young people’s lives, the feelings of pain and rage are what I think possess all of us. I want to believe that Justice will do its duty. He has to do it. We are all waiting for answers. To be sought, to be assigned the responsibilities and to have the punishment provided for by the legal order” he added about the crime of Tempe, specifically.