Late on Friday afternoon, Epaminondas Korkoneas was arrested following the decision of the Supreme Court that annulled his release from prison.
The killer of Alexandros Grigoropoulos was found in Stoupa, Messinia, and is now being held in Kalamata. According to information provided by ERT, he will be taken back to prison this morning.
It is recalled that by a unanimous decision of the plenary session of the Supreme Court, the appeal of the Prosecutor of the Supreme Court Vassilis Pliotas was accepted and the decision of the Lamia MOE was annulled for lack of the required reasoning, in so far as it recognized to the accused Epaminondas Korkoneas the extenuating circumstance of "lawful life" under Article 84(2a) of the Criminal Code.
Consequently, the judgment was also set aside as regards the part of the sentence and the case, in this part of the judgment that was set aside, was referred to the same court, composed of judges and jurors, other than those who had previously tried the case.
Advocates for the Grigoropoulos family: Moral vindication of the child's memory
The advocates for the family of Alexandros Grigoropoulos' family, Nikos and Zoe Konstantopoulou, express their satisfaction with the Supreme Court's decision to overturn the recognition of extenuating circumstances for Epamia Korkoneas.
"As advocates for the family of Alexandros Grigoropoulos, we express our great satisfaction with the news of the unanimous decision of the Plenary of the Supreme Court of Appeals to revoke the recognition of the mitigating circumstance of extenuating circumstances to the convicted for the murder of Epaminondas Korkoneas.
Defending the memory of the wronged Alexandros, who was murdered at the age of 15 by the perpetrator police officer Korkoneas, we reacted from the very first moment to the announcement of the provocative decision to reward the murderer with a decision - a scandal in the judicial annals," they say to add:
"We asked for an appeal, which to his credit was acted upon by the Prosecutor of the Supreme Court and we demanded to the end the restoration of Justice and Truth.
The disappearance of the scandalous decision, with which Alexander's killer was released from prison, is a moral vindication of the memory of the child and his family's struggles for justice.
We remain at the side of Alexander's mother and sister until the irrevocable judgment in the case, demanding that this judgment discourage any new would-be Corker and protect any next Alexander."
Source: Proto Thema<
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