{"id":1803,"date":"2026-04-21T16:41:00","date_gmt":"2026-04-21T13:41:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/?p=1803"},"modified":"2026-04-21T16:41:00","modified_gmt":"2026-04-21T13:41:00","slug":"trial-of-george-liggeridis-request-for-the-three-protected-witnesses-not-to-testify-video","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/?p=1803","title":{"rendered":"Trial of George Liggeridis: Request for the three protected witnesses not to testify (video)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A request to the <b>trial court <\/b>that the three protected witnesses not testify was made today by defense attorneys, in <b>trial <\/b>for the <b>murder <\/b>of <b>police officer <\/b><b>Jiorgos Liggeridis<\/b>. <\/p>\n<p>These are <b>witnesses<\/b> who during the preliminary investigation <b>have turned against some accused<\/b>. <\/p>\n<p><b>Defense attorneys have submitted a request not to testify<\/b> if the court does not first check whether they have <b>dual status<\/b>, that is, <b>if they are witnesses and defendants in the same case<\/b>. <\/p>\n<figure>\n<div class=\"embed-responsive\">   <\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<p>The prosecutor reserved his motion on this request, and <b>the trial was adjourned and will resume tomorrow with the testimony of police officers<\/b>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A request to the court not to allow the three protected witnesses to testify was submitted today by the defence lawyers in the trial for the murder of &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1804,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1803","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-greece"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1803","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1803"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1803\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1804"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1803"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1803"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1803"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}