Panos Kammenos’ public apology ended with a lawsuit with Nikos Kotzias – accusing him of stolen from secret funds

By publicly apology The multicultural dispute of the former Minister of Defense ended Panos Kammenos, With the former Foreign Minister and President of the Movement, Nikos Kotzias.
In a statement he submitted today to the Athens Criminal Court, Panos Kammenos states: “In the context of out -of -court settlement of the pending criminal and civil affairs between me and Mr. Nikolaou Kotzias, from which we explicitly resign, On the one hand, they did not personally concern Mr Kotzias, but other factors and on the other, they were a product of misinformation, I recall them and never questioned Mr Kotzias’ honesty and morality. “

“Today Kammenos asked me in court in writing and orally, publicly apologizing, and in a statement he admitted that I was honest and a person with morality. The truth shone, “Nikos Kotzias said in a post on social networks.

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How did the case started, what was Kammenos saying then

For blackmail, threats and defamation, among other things, the lawsuits filed on February 18, 2019, under the SYRIZA government at the Supreme Court Public Prosecutor’s Office The former Foreign Minister – Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras – Nikos Kotzias took his place. His reference was directed against Panos Kammenos in the aftermath of the Prespa Agreement, which was the reason for him to call him a number of offenses, and in particular for a natural even moral incitement, slanderous defamation, threat, moral and immediate synergy, threat.

In his report, Mr. Kotzias mentioned among other things:

«It is logical that the forces of inactivity reacted. They reacted in many ways, which are allowed and are an element of the freedom of Greeks and democracy: events, marches, speeches, notices, autonomous texts, articles and other forms as well as the most different combinations of all the above. Next to the above and legally other forms of confrontation with government policy that escape the democratic contexts and values ​​of freedom.»

The follow -up, as he pointed out, was personalized against him, with open blackmail and threats to him and his family. Mr Kotzias said he had received hundreds of letters, telephone messages and emails and bullets that, as he underlined, were accompanied by blood and soil where “my family would be buried”.

When the extreme blackmail was not passed, Mr. Kotzias said, “There has been and there is an attempt to impose a different foreign policy in the country with threats and blackmail. To tarnish with the false image of various means, which the illegal blackmailers may have access to, the foreign policy he has had in recent years.»

To discredit, as he emphasized, his face, and by extension to defame the very policy he was, namely the Prespa Agreement.

In this context, as he argued, the blackmailers have traded three lies to force him to silence:

– They said it received and traded 50m euros from Soros. But never, as Mr Kotzias said, he met Soros, nor had nothing to do with him.

– That it stole the secret funds that reached even 80 million euros. However, as he noted, Mr. Kotzias: ‘First there are no such amounts. Secondly, this cannot be done to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs because everything is controlled by a three -member Service Committee, which proposes, distributes and decides the Bureau of the House, with the approval of which any disbursement of the competent department of the Ministry can be disbursed by each time.».

– That he gave a provider /visa company illegally and for him the profitable tender for the Vizu provider. This story, Mr. Kotzias said, is spreading based on the objections of third parties who did not win the competition, especially the one who ceased to have the right of the provider. “This is the usual tactic of dirty hands that throw mud on the fan“, He noted.

Concluding the memoirs, Mr. Kotzias, seeking the protection of justice, said:

«I believe and there is a need for the court to protect me. And I would like to say and declare before the Greek justice that my targeted targeting by the summer of 2018 makes it potentially responsible if anything bad for me and my family, in our physical and mental health happens. A target that for someone who knows from international relations could give the impression that there was something else behind this’ unexplained one».