{"id":2179,"date":"2026-04-23T13:43:00","date_gmt":"2026-04-23T10:43:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/?p=2179"},"modified":"2026-04-23T13:43:00","modified_gmt":"2026-04-23T10:43:00","slug":"liggeridis-trial-1-year-has-passed-and-the-decision-on-the-natural-perpetrator-has-not-been-signed-video","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/?p=2179","title":{"rendered":"Liggeridis trial: &#8216;1 year has passed and the decision on the natural perpetrator has not been signed&#8217; (video)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <b>defense<\/b> doesn&#8217;t want the <b>protected witnesses<\/b> to testify &#8211; &#8220;The irony we see would infuriate anyone,&#8221; the family&#8217;s attorney said.<\/p>\n<p>Skai was joined as a guest by <b>Maria Hadjikonstantinou, attorney <\/b>for the family of the murdered police officer <b>Giorgos Liggeridis,<\/b> who explained the reasons why the <b>defense side<\/b> does not want the <b>protected witnesses to testify.<\/b> &#8220;From the start of this long trial, the delays started because objections were raised by the natural perpetrator&#8217;s side, since his conviction is not irrevocable,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<figure>\n<div class=\"embed-responsive\">   <\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<p>&#8220;Because there was the <b>blatant argument, <\/b>in my opinion, to separate the <b>sentencing <\/b>and the natural perpetrator being tried alone, while the co-perpetrators of the homicide of <b>Giorgos Liggeridis<\/b> being in this court and now having it postponed to a later time, they are using every procedural trick to delay as long as his irrevocable <b>conviction<\/b> is delayed,&#8221; Ms. <b>Hatzikonstantinou<\/b>.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The difficult part of the case is that this <b>second degree of jurisdiction<\/b> should have already been determined &#8211; the <b>Court of Appeal<\/b> that is,&#8221; she added. &#8220;It hasn&#8217;t <b>cleared<\/b> the decision yet, after 1 year.  By <b>February 20<\/b> was the deadline when the presiding judge was supposed to sign the certified judgment. This is a matter to which we also object. Three others depend on this trial for the natural perpetrator: the <b>adult<\/b> co-perpetrators, those who were separated from the co-perpetrators and the present one.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><b>And he added saying:<\/b><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;As long as the <b>natural perpetrator<\/b> has not been consolidated what he has done, how will the <b>co-perpetrator<\/b> go? We have no answer and because it is already <b>on the 20th of the month two months<\/b> after the deadline, I recommended that we proceed with a complaint to both the minister and the Piraeus administration. We will do so immediately.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>At the same time &#8211; he said &#8211; it should have gone without saying that from the pre-trial stage the <b>Justice<\/b> would have ensured that the protected <b>witness<\/b> is not <b>accused<\/b>. &#8220;It was felt on the part of the defendants that these police officers should not testify. But the testimonies are many and important and all contribute and testify to the charges,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The irony that we see would infuriate not only <b>the parents<\/b> of <b>George<\/b>, but every citizen. It is ordinary citizens who come forward and declare &#8220;what kind of people are these&#8221;. What I&#8217;ve learned is that the headlines from some links are <b>Western Truth<\/b>, you know?&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Defense doesn&#8217;t want protected witnesses to testify &#8211; &#8220;The irony we see would infuriate anyone,&#8221; said counsel for &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2180,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2179","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\/2179","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=2179"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2179\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2180"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2179"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2179"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2179"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}