A new prosecutor's investigation was ordered for the rape case reported by the 24-year-old woman in Thessaloniki.
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The investigation turns against the lawyer Theophilos Alexopoulos who accompanied the 27-year-old accused in the case to the White Tower Security Department.
This was prompted by the 24-year-old woman's complaint in an interview that she was attacked by this lawyer while she was at the station. "He was trying to blame me, that he knows things and that I should let it go because it's not the way I say it. He was trying to use his words to get me to back off. And I was alone of course and in the situation I was in trying to find my right and remember to help me and I had this gentleman attacking me," the complainant said, among other things, naming the lawyer.
Under these circumstances, the head of the Thessaloniki Prosecutor's Office Panagiotis Panagiotopoulos ordered to conduct a preliminary examination in which the offense of attempted unlawful violence will be investigated, while the lawyer will be invited to give an anonymous statement (as a suspect of committing a criminal act).
The lawyer in a statement issued earlier "to restore the truth" points out, among other things, that "at no point in the preliminary investigation and at no time to date have I been in contact with the complainant whom I do not know, and certainly the alleged verbal assault never happened not only because it is illegal but mainly because it does not reflect my principles and ethics, my anthropocentric approach to the profession I exercise and the respect I owe and always show to all parties to the trial. It should be noted that this counsel did not attend the plea given by the 27-year-old before the interrogator.
Source: APE-MPA
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