What does the announcement issued by the Union of Judges and Prosecutors say?
The Union of Judges and Prosecutors on the occasion of yesterday’s extremely urgent letter of the President of the Supreme Court Ioanna Klapas to the heads of the Courts of First Instance of the country, in which she points out that the immediately will operate on weekends and holidays, in today’s announcement it states that the self-services operate on weekends and holidays, while adding that significant inaccuracies regarding the way the self-service process operates were brought to light yesterday.
In more detail, the announcement of the EDE is as follows: “In a series of publications that saw the light of day yesterday, important inaccuracies were included as to how the automatic procedure works in our country. It was neither little nor much doubted that self-inflicted compounds exist and operate normally on Saturdays and holidays, with the result that the adjudication of self-inflicted crimes is allegedly made more difficult for this reason. We inform the “experienced” journalists of court reporting that it would be enough to jog their weak memory to remember that according to the Rules of Courts – approved by the Areopagus – self-driving compositions hear cases consistently every Saturday, that investigators and prosecutors are appointed and they serve on Saturdays, Sundays and holidays and that there is no way to release a person arrested for committing a spontaneous crime, without the intervention of a prosecutorial or judicial judgement. It should be noted that the Code of Criminal Procedure explicitly provides, in the event that the Court is not in session on the day the arrested person is brought to the public prosecutor, the possibility of setting an extraordinary trial for the same or the next day, with the result that the Court’s non-session on Sunday will never imply impossibility to refer the arrested person to the competent court during the spontaneous procedure.
The judges and prosecutors who have been performing our duties for years and on the days that for the rest of the citizens are a time of rest, we do not demand that we receive any special praise for this, but we demand that the reality that we all experience is not distorted and that it is not targeted us the easy means of covering failures and weaknesses of other government services”.
