{"id":13135,"date":"2026-06-27T10:04:00","date_gmt":"2026-06-27T07:04:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/?p=13135"},"modified":"2026-06-27T10:04:00","modified_gmt":"2026-06-27T07:04:00","slug":"in-rammous-mixer-giotopoulos-pattakos-and-surveillance-silence-regarding-the-supreme-courts-findings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/?p=13135","title":{"rendered":"In Rammou\u2019s \u201cmixer\u201d: Giotopoulos, Pattakos, and surveillance \u2014 Silence regarding the Supreme Court\u2019s findings"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>     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 \u201c82-year-old man\u201d <strong>Giotopoulos<\/strong>, has nothing to say about the crimes of the leader of the terrorist organization <strong>17N<\/strong>, while also drawing a strange parallel with <strong>Pattakos<\/strong>! <\/p>\n<p>     The reason for this is the former head of <strong>ADAE Christos Rammos<\/strong>, who is lashing out against the <strong>government<\/strong>, while making no secret of his dissatisfaction with decisions by the <strong>judiciary<\/strong>, particularly at the highest level. <\/p>\n<p>     In an interview with \u201cEpochi,\u201d referring to the decision by the prosecutor of the <strong>Supreme Court<\/strong> not to reopen the <strong>surveillance<\/strong> case without new evidence, Mr. <strong>Ramos<\/strong> is outraged. <\/p>\n<p>     \u201cThe recent refusal of the Prosecutor of the <strong>Supreme Court<\/strong>, <strong>Mr. Tzavella<\/strong>, to reopen the case of <strong>wiretapping<\/strong> from the archives, despite the recent decision by the Single-Judge Misdemeanor Court, shows that the fundamental check on power, which is the <strong>Judiciary<\/strong>\u2014and specifically its leadership\u2014is 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 <strong>government<\/strong> is doing everything it can to neutralize the constitutional checks and balances. Beyond the <strong>Judiciary<\/strong>, we have seen, in light of what happened with the <strong>ADAE<\/strong>, how it perceives the role of <strong>Independent Authorities<\/strong>,\u201d notes the former president of the <strong>ADAE<\/strong>. <\/p>\n<p>     When asked about the terrorist <strong>Giotopoulos<\/strong>, who has returned to prison, he says, among other things, some rather baffling remarks. <\/p>\n<p>     \u201cIt is alarming that in a case involving an 82-year-old man who has served 24 years in prison\u2014and where the question is whether he will be able to die at home\u2014 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 <strong>judicial branch<\/strong> is fully exhausted\u2014a branch that otherwise refuses to investigate obvious responsibilities in the <strong>wiretapping<\/strong> 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 <strong>Pattakos<\/strong>, 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,\u201d he points out. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\n    He defends the decision of a single-judge court rather than the rulings of the country\u2019s Supreme Court. 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