The short roadmap with 2+1 steps for criminal prosecution against Christos Triantopoulos and his reference to Judicial council They decided by the majority of its members pre -trial Committee of the House.
According to the final decision of the majority of the pre -trial committee The controlled former deputy minister is called upon to provide explanations on Friday, March 28, 2025, at 10am. It will then be given to the parties about 10 days to draw up their findings while the overall finding will be introduced into the plenary within the first 15th of April for the final vote.
The finding will end up in the exercise proposal prosecution for the offense of breach of duty And if it is approved by at least 151 Members – which is most likely – Mr Triantopoulos will be referred to the Judicial Council. The 5 -member composition of the Supreme Judicial Council will be determined by draw.
Always according to the same information The majority suggestion approved by voting It states that the evidence included in the prosecution order for the deterioration of the place of the railway accident are sufficient to prosecute Mr Triantopoulos. In fact, its deputies New Democracy cited his proposal PASOK To make up of her pre -trial Where, among other things, he says that Mr Triantopoulos would have already been prosecuted by the competent prosecutor’s Office if he was a natural person and not a member of the government as the findings are sufficient.
It should be noted that the opposition parties, except the Spartans and the cruise freedom, left the vote so as not to legitimize as they supported the “anti -disposal” majority decisions.
Opposition positions
On the side of PASOK the lady Milena Apostolaki He argued that the majority proposal is hurting the function and credibility of the institutions. She complained to an attempt to deliberately bypass the preliminary examination and a direct reference to Mr Triantopoulou to the interrogation stage, in violation of the Constitution. Ms Apostolakis insisted on the need to maintain the criminal jurisdiction in Parliament, while appearing to describe the conversion of PASOK’s proposal for the establishment of a pre -trial prosecution.
Mr. Vassilis Kokkalis of SYRIZA He talked about the “absolute humiliation” of the Constitution and the Law. “They denied the witnesses we proposed with the Prime Minister first. Selectively and despite the law they call on explanations by Mr. Triantopoulos. We were absent from the vote in a parody process, ”he said.
ND: The 3 reasons that Triantopoulos’s request must be accepted
The ND MP Konstantina Karampatsoli Presenting the majority’s recommendation, he argued that Mr Triantopoulos’s immediate reference to the Judicial Council is in line with the Constitution, guarantees the complete investigation of the tragedy of Tempi by senior judges, without party confrontations, and is based on the prosecution of the Public Prosecutor’s Office. He reportedly developed three main reasons that support the majority proposal, saying, inter alia:
1) He rejected the opposition’s allegations that a possible direct reference was not in line with the Constitution, stressing that the Triantopoulos request is “absolutely compatible with the provisions of Article 86 of the Constitution” on the criminal treatment of government officials, but also with the Rules of Procedure. Mrs Karampatsolis even recalled that the constitutionally certain mission of the Commission is the drafting of a finding, which would suggest in plenary to exercise or not prosecution against the former deputy minister. In this context, he made it clear that the Commission does not have the jurisdiction to judge one’s guilt, but simply to judge as to the help of simple indications for the movement of criminal prosecution.
2) He pointed out that for the management of the Tempe tragedy, which is being checked by Mr Triantopoulos, he had already been prosecuted by four non -political figures and reminded the opposition that the PASOK MPs themselves, on page 16 of their request, were not already in order to set up a pre -authoritarian. with these four defendants. Mrs Karampatsolis even noted that a preliminary prosecutor has already been completed for the four persecutors. “Since the prosecution has already been prosecuted on natural persons based on this evidence, we suggest that there is no reason to carry out other investigative acts, beyond those in which the prosecutor of the Appeals has done, and propose to plenary to the prosecution of the Criminal Council,” Karabatsolis. The majority rapporteur added that the evidence that has been transmitted, as analyzed in detail in the Public Prosecutor’s Office, is sufficient for the assistance of the required simple indications, which necessary to further investigate the case by the Judicial Council.
3) The ND rapporteur also underlined that given the pandemic request to spill light on the tragedy of the Tempi, the Judicial Council “guarantees the complete and thorough investigation of all aspects” of the case, as it is staffed by five senior judges. He also rejected the objections that the Judicial Council would not be able to do a real job, explaining that the Areopagite who will be drawn as an investigator has “no restriction on his investigative jurisdiction” and enjoys all the investigative forces that the pre -trial committee has. Ms. Karampatsolis noted, finally, that with the immediate reference to the Judicial Council, Mr Triantopoulos himself agrees to bypass a stage which, in political terms, would be in favor of the government majority.