Department of Justice for Tempe: “Our aim to investigate and illuminate every aspect of the case”

For the investigations carried out on their very dead tragedy and the intervention of Georgia Adeline regarding the lost video from loading the commercial train in Thessaloniki, the Deputy Minister, Ioannis Bougas, spoke. “Our member, is the culprits of the Tempe railway tragedy to be punished and this will be done with the functioning of the institutions guaranteed by the Greek State,” the Deputy Minister of Justice made clear on “complaints of omissions of the current investigator Larissa investigating the Tempe tragedy”. “The main interrogation is still underway in order to investigate all aspects and the main thing is secret. The judicial and prosecutorial authorities perform their work with complete independence and investigate what may be causally linked to the tragic accident that led to the death of 57 of our fellow citizens,” he continued. Regarding the document sent by the Supreme Court prosecutor, Georgia Adeline, on the occasion of the reports on the absence of audiovisual material, he said that this “is part of the effort made to investigate all aspects of the tragic accident in full”. “The plenary of the Presidents of Appeals and Appeals of Larissa, a few days after the tragic incident of the Tempes, decided unanimously in accordance with Article 28 of the CID, the assignment of the main interrogation by this year’s investigator, horizon and his deputy. And the definition of two experienced investigators was deemed necessary, due to the complexity of the investigation and because the case had and has many parameters,” he recalled at another point. On whether additional assistant investigators need to be appointed , Mr. Bugas said that he was responsible “according to Article 30 of the Courts Agency is not the Minister of Justice but the three-member Judicial Board of Justice”. As to whether the Minister of Justice can intervene in the supervision of the current investigator on the manner in which he conducts the investigation, the Deputy Minister said that “in accordance with order 23 of the Statute of Courts, the Minister shall exercise supervision only in the administration of Justice” and as explicitly defined “any directive, recommendation or recommendation to a judicial officer on a substantive or procedural matter in a particular case, is unacceptable and constitutes a disciplinary offence.” Mr. Bougas rejected the reports of the President of Victory who stated that the special perpetrator – interrogator makes omissions about the Tempes tragedy, describing that these are “deep unconstitutional” statements. At another point he convened Dimitris Nacios that without knowledge of the case he attempts in the Chamber to create impressions and “a climate of controversy, not between opposition and government, but between opposition and judges”. This, he said, you ask, is essentially “in a pending case, the Minister of Justice order a disciplinary investigation against the interrogator conducting the interrogation!”. The president of Nikis, Dimitris Natsios, on his own side blamed responsibilities of omissions on this year’s interrogator Larissa investigating the train tragedy of the Tempes and reported: “Today, the prosecutor of the Supreme Court, Georgia Adeline ordered – on the occasion of reports – an urgent criminal preliminary examination for any self-imposed criminal offence, in order to investigate why the footage from the Thessaloniki railway station cameras delivered by the managers of the management company to the previous investigator did not contain the most important: the videos from the Thessaloniki engine room at the time of loading the freight train.” Stressing that these elements “should have been in the case-file since the first day of the interrogation”, the President of Victory called for an investigation into what is publicly denounced at the expense of the current interrogator handling the Tembe case and for care to be taken to replace, or strengthen, other colleagues in order to ensure legal certainty that the investigation carried out is substantial and real. He rejected the Deputy Minister’s responses as “disclosure and avoidance answers” claiming that under the Constitution and the law, they explicitly stipulate that they are responsible for disciplinary prosecution for all judicial officials, first of all being the Minister of Justice. And according to Article 117(2) of the Code of Judicial Officers it is stated that “responsible for the prosecution when aware that it was carried out by a judicial act of disciplinary misconduct, it is the Minister of Justice” and “yes it must proceed immediately to preliminary examination”. Mr Natsios called on the Minister of Justice that “not only does he not exercise his duties and duties, but instead hides behind the distinction of powers”. The discussion of the topical question between the Deputy Minister of Justice and the President of Victory, commented by placing it and the president of the Freedom Floating, Zoe Konstantopoulou, saying that “the Supreme Court prosecutor today orders urgent preliminary investigation, because the video footage from the commercial train that all indications and evidence leads to the conclusion that she was carrying illegal cargo is still not in the file.” She stated that she as a victim advocate knows the case and pointed out that “the study shown by the government and by the Minister of Justice himself to close the interrogation arron so that there would be no investigation into these specific issues and government defendants, is the absolute proof that you feel guilty about the crime of the Tempes.” Finally, she was reserved for a new topical question.