The well-known criminal lawyer, Alexis Kougias, describes the news that circulated and wanted him to take over the defense of Roula Pispirigou as false.
As he stresses in a statement "Today, among other things, the false news was circulated that allegedly I have been handed the case file, with accused Ms. Roula Pispirigou, which file allegedly studying, to answer whether I will take over the defense. The news is completely false and I have never received the relevant file from anyone and I have never started studying it."
However, Alexis Kougias admitted that both the father of the accused and the governor of a large hospital in Athens asked him to represent her.
"A governor of a very large hospital in Athens asked me to undertake her defence, undertaking to pay my fees, but I refused due to excessive workload," Alexis Kougias said in a statement.
In detail, the entire statement of Alexis Kougias:
"Today, among other things, the false news was spread that allegedly I have been handed the case file, accused Ms. Roula Pispirigou, which case file allegedly studying, to answer whether I will undertake her defense.
The news is completely false and I have never to date been given the relevant file by anyone and I have never started studying it.
But I want to state categorically that the first thing I have learned to respect in my career is to respect my colleagues and their work when they defend our fellow human beings, whether they have committed crimes, whether they are innocent or guilty, and especially junior colleagues in their defence work and I never interfere with that unless we are co-defenders.
At no time have I ever agreed to appear on television and talk about cases handled by others, playing the role of a minder, just to advertise.
The truth is that, following the unacceptable and morally and ethically unacceptable action of colleagues who initially undertook Ms. Pispirigou's defense, advertised themselves by appearing for days in the media, and then, after receiving copies of the brief and distributing it to their journalist friends, then resigned, creating impressions of guilt against the accused, the governor of a very large hospital in Athens asked me to take over her defense, undertaking to pay my fees, but I refused due to excessive workload, since at the same time I was the lawyer of the Topaloudis family, I am the lawyer of Mr. Dimitris Lignadis, I am representing four victims of the so-called false doctor (Kontostathis) in the ongoing trial, I am the lawyer of the three Serbian students accused of the homicide against Bakari Henderson in Zakynthos, I am representing the CFO of Folli Follie in Hong Kong in the related trial, while at the same time at that time I was participating all weekends in a manslaughter trial that was taking place in Xanthi and I had just taken over the representation of the family of Alkis Kabanos in Thessaloniki, while at the same time I had to attend various other trials all over Greece, but I didn't like in general the whole media fair that was set up in the media, unfortunately, even with the participation of the defendant and her husband.
A week ago, while the accused had already chosen two excellent young colleagues, her father phoned my office, asking my secretary to contact me because he wanted to entrust me with her defence.
My reply was explicit and unequivocal. I asked him:
1) that Ms. Defendant contact me personally to ask me.
2) that my two colleagues be informed and approve my sympathy with them; and
3) that, provided the two previous conditions are met, the case file be handed over to me so that I could understand whether I had the opportunity to defend Mrs. Accused in the way I have understood it for the last almost fifty years.
To date, none of these conditions that I set have been met and I have nothing to do with this case and everything else that is being spread is all false news dissemination and disrespect for the work of my colleagues.
P.S. Unfortunately, however, every day I observe the presence of lawyers, who I have hardly ever seen in a criminal court, participating in this television fair, exposing the profession of lawyer and especially of criminal lawyer, destroying the conditions of a fair trial, without, unfortunately, any institution reacting.
Source: in.gr
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