He was placed with an announcement he issued, after being brought against him, on the Lygeridis case. The mayor of Piraeus Giannis Moralis responded to the persecution exercised by the competent judicial authorities handling the great case with the 167 accused of criminal organization in the field of football, whose action included the murder of police officer George Lygeridis, in Redi in 2023 The prosecution against the mayor of Piraeus is a delinquent one and concerns the offences of supporting and financing a criminal organisation and inciting sports violence. In his announcement, Giannis Moralis states disappointed and confident that he will eventually be vindicated. He stands by the fact that some predicted developments early and certainly, as he says. “The citizens should be sure that no one will stop our work,” stresses the mayor of Piraeus, at another point in his announcement. The announcement of Giannis Moralis The purity of my behavior over time in both my private life and my public activity, either in sport until 2014, or from the position of the Mayor of Piraeus in the last 10 years, has always been a condition of non-negotiable. My plea calls are in vain fighting my commitment to legality. If I am involved in this treatment as irresponsible publications and broadcasts of specific instruments, the concern about the proper functioning of the institutions goes beyond my protest of injustice against me, regardless of the final outcome, which will certainly justify me solemnly. The citizens should be sure that no one will stop our work, nor reduce our intensity and passion for offering and for the generally admitted positive course and progress of our Piraeus. I sincerely wondered how some very timely were predicting with certainty what is happening today. I am disappointed that I had the naivety of these predicaments to regard them as a product of fantasies and hypotheses or submitting their wishes. It was obviously my fault. The distinct treatment of the members of the Olympic Piraeus Administration and therefore mine, due to the fact that, apart from the position of the Mayor of Piraeus, I have honour in due course and the position of Vice President of Olympiacos FC is ocular and allows the formulation of concerns about the functioning of our country’s institutions.”
Moralis for the prosecution for the Lygeridis case: I am concerned about the proper functioning of the institutions
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in Greece