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Following the attorney-general’s announcement that no evidence of criminal wrongdoing has come up in the case of the 2005 death of national guardsman Thanasis Nicolaou, his family’s lawyer Christos Triantafyllides on Wednesday said he will take the case to the European Court of Human Rights.
Speaking to reporters, Triantafyllides added that the family intends to open legal proceedings “against those tasked with the investigation of the guardsman’s death, such as investigators Savvas Matsas and Antonis Alexandropoulos, and against three police officers serving at the Limassol police headquarters in Limassol at the time of Nicolaou’s death.”
The lawyer also said that positive developments are also expected in the lawsuit filed by the family against the Republic for the flawed investigation of the case.
According to Triantafyllides, it is possible that attorney-general Giorgos Savvides will accept a settlement based on the decisions of the European Court of Human Rights and cover the family’s legal expenses, as well as any compensations that may be awarded.
He also underlined that, despite Savvides’ failure to find any criminal wrongdoing in the case, the family is still cooperating with the attorney-general’s office.
On Tuesday, Savvides said the current leadership of the attorney-general’s office did all it could – and under the difficult conditions of investigating the event 18 years later – to get to the bottom of the circumstances surrounding the death of Nicolaou and, if possible, identify any culprits.
Meanwhile, Nicolaou’s mother Andriana lashed out against the legal service in a social media post.
“We have been waiting to get a response from the attorney-general’s office for 50 days in order to get answers on how we proceed with a tragic case that has been tormenting us and making us suffer unimaginably for 18 whole years, just because corrupt individuals covered it up,” the post said.
“The letter we received saying that there will be no prosecutions in the case speaks volumes of the cover-up and proves that my son was killed because he witnessed drug dealings at the camp he was stationed.”
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