He defends the decision of a single-judge court and not the findings of the Supreme Court of the country. He defends the rights of the “82-year-old man” Giotopoulos, has nothing to say about the crimes of the leader of the terrorist organization 17N, while also drawing a strange parallel with Pattakos!
The reason for this is the former head of ADAE Christos Rammos, who is lashing out against the government, while making no secret of his dissatisfaction with decisions by the judiciary, particularly at the highest level.
In an interview with “Epochi,” referring to the decision by the prosecutor of the Supreme Court not to reopen the surveillance case without new evidence, Mr. Ramos is outraged.
“The recent refusal of the Prosecutor of the Supreme Court, Mr. Tzavella, to reopen the case of wiretapping from the archives, despite the recent decision by the Single-Judge Misdemeanor Court, shows that the fundamental check on power, which is the Judiciary—and specifically its leadership—is failing to fulfill its constitutional role in a case that is pivotal to the functioning of the rule of law and democracy. In general, this government is doing everything it can to neutralize the constitutional checks and balances. Beyond the Judiciary, we have seen, in light of what happened with the ADAE, how it perceives the role of Independent Authorities,” notes the former president of the ADAE.
When asked about the terrorist Giotopoulos, who has returned to prison, he says, among other things, some rather baffling remarks.
“It is alarming that in a case involving an 82-year-old man who has served 24 years in prison—and where the question is whether he will be able to die at home— a foreign power is intervening, as if Greece were its protectorate, and it is in this case that the severity of the judgment of the judicial branch is fully exhausted—a branch that otherwise refuses to investigate obvious responsibilities in the wiretapping scandal. A democratic state must be neither vindictive nor unforgiving. A fundamental principle governing the law of a state that wishes to be called humane and democratic (one cannot exist without the other) is leniency. Without it, the law becomes an inhumane mechanism for enforcing power. Finally, let me remind you that the coup leader Pattakos, who participated in the overthrow of democracy and was initially sentenced to death, was eventually released from prison and even made statements of a political nature,” he points out.
