Resounding intervention by Androulakis on Predator: “A great defeat for the Maximos Mansion parastate”
Resounding intervention by Androulakis on Predator: “A great defeat for the Maximos parastate”
A landmark judicial decision for the case of illegal surveillance through the Predator software causes a new cycle of fierce political confrontation. The President of PASOK-Movement for Change, Nikos Androulakis, with a tough “catapult” statement, speaks of a “great defeat of the parastate” organized by the Megaro Maximos system, underlining that justice is now reopening the file for the gravest offense of espionage.
Mr. Androulakis is not limited only to government criticism, but leaves hints about the stance of the leadership of Justice and the silence of the other victims, making clear that his struggle will continue until the full accountability of those responsible, with the next stop being the European Court of Human Rights.
Official Statement of Nikos Androulakis, President of PASOK-Movement for Change:
“Today’s decision of the Single-Member Misdemeanor Court for the Predator case constitutes one more vindication in the struggle that I have been unwaveringly giving for four years. A decision that comes as a result of the criminal complaint that I filed with the Prosecutor’s Office of the Supreme Court in July 2022.
It is a great defeat of the parastate, which the Maximos Mansion system and Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis organized.
It exposes, however, also the handlings of the leadership of justice that archived serious aspects of this malodorous case, which not only flagrantly violated human rights and the rule of law, but the security of the country was also jeopardized when the leadership of the armed forces was unscrupulously placed under surveillance, allowing unknown third parties to possess this material.
With today’s decision, the file is forwarded again to the Prosecutor’s Office for an investigation that will concern, among other offenses, also that of espionage.
From this struggle, the dozens of victims of illegal surveillance – government ministers, officials – chose consciously to be absent, who although they had a political and institutional duty to be complainants, witnesses, and prosecutors, preferred silence and collaborated in the cover-up.
Despite the occasional ‘exhortations’ to lower the flag of this battle, because ‘it got tiring’ and ‘whom does it concern anymore,’ not for a moment did I think of abandoning the mandatory political and legal path.
The struggle will continue until all the protagonists of this dark case are held accountable. Next stop is the ECHR for the government’s compliance with the decision of the country’s supreme court. I call once more upon the Prime Minister to give an order to the EYP, which he had under his supervision, to execute the decision of the Council of State. Enough has he exposed the country and wounded the institutions, the separation of powers, and the rule of law with his choices.”
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