The trial for the case of the Golden Dawn continues today at the Athens Court of Appeal[/B]. of Golden Dawn and while the court had received a request during its previous session from the side of the accused leader of the criminal organization Nikos Michaloliakos for a postponement of the trial.
Specifically, the defendant's defence had requested - and it remains for the court to decide - that the trial be postponed because Nikos Michaloliakos is absent for health reasons, as he had been hospitalised with covid for two months in intensive care and is now in a rehabilitation centre. "He does not know why he is on trial, he was summoned while he was in intensive care with loss of consciousness and visual and auditory hallucinations," the defendant's lawyer said in the previous session, asking for a postponement of the trial.
Present in court was instead Yannis Lagos, who declared himself a "political prisoner". In fact, he submitted a request to the court for his release along with three other defendants. However, the court prosecutor asked for the requests to be rejected and the court reserved its decision
[/P]As for today's proceedings, this is expected to continue with the appointment of defense counsel for defendants who do not have a lawyer and legal representation in support of the prosecution.
A total of 54[/B] defendants are being tried by the appellate court in the Golden Dawn case, with 50 of them facing charges of membership and participation in a criminal organization. However, only 16 of them were in court at the previous session. Among them were Christos Pappas, Antonis Gregos and Panagiotis Iliopoulos. In contrast, the confessed murderer of Pavlos Fyssas, Giorgos Roupakias, did not appear at the trial.
The number of prosecution witnesses reached 146. First on the list are the parents of Pavlos Fyssas, Panagiotis and Magda, who will make a statement in support of the prosecution. "We want the same result as in the first instance, a conviction," the 34-year-old musician's mother said when she arrived at the court.
Source: protothema.gr
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