Athens Court of Appeals

An appeal has been filed challenging the acquittal of a mother in the Kolonos case, where she was acquitted of the serious charge of pimping her 12-year-old daughter with the vote of only the jurors last week. 

The appeal contends that the evidence and documentation in the case were not adequately evaluated by the jurors. 

Christos Pappas, who was second in charge of the far-right Golden Dawn party, was arrested late on July 1 in Zografos, a suburb of the Greek capital Athens. 

Pappas, who had been sentenced to 13 years in prison in October 2020 along with other senior members of the party for forming a criminal organization, had gone missing after the verdict.

Efforts are under way to convene the plenary of the Athens Court of Appeals so that an investigation into the politically charged Novartis case can be referred to an investigating judge at the highest level, Kathimerini understands.

Supreme Court prosecutor Vassilis Pliotas has called for the convening of a plenary of the Athens Court of Appeals so that the investigation into the politically charged Novartis case can be referred to an investigating judge at the highest level.

The sense that anti-establishment groups and self-styled anarchists are acting with impunity in the Greek capital was on full display yet again on Wednesday after fresh incidents at Athens University, the Athens Court of Appeals and the Embassy of Brazil. 

Police detained 14 suspects on Wednesday after a group of about 30 self-styled anarchists barged into the Athens Court of Appeals, reports say.

According to the same reports, the protesters stormed the building and reached the seventh floor before scattering fliers.

The Athens Court of Appeals was being evacuated on Tuesday morning following two anonymous telephone calls warning of a bomb.

The calls were made to the newspaper Eleftheros Typos and the website Zoulga.gr, warning that the court had to be evacuated by 11.20 a.m.

An Athens Court of Appeals has found former general secretary for procurements Yiannis Sbokos guilty of taking bribes in connection with the purchase of the TOR-M1 short-range missile defense system.

The court also upheld charges against Petros Christodoulides, a broker, and businessman Giorgos Kamaris.

The head of the Athens Court of Appeals, Constantinos Stamadianos, vowed measures on Wednesday to accelerate the trial of Greece's neo-fascist Golden Dawn party, which started three-and-a-half years ago.

Twelve attorneys for the prosecution in the ongoing trial against neo-Nazi party Golden Dawn have filed a petition demanding that the proceedings be speeded up with daily sessions that will be restricted to the Athens Court of Appeals.