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Electoral court postpones ruling on far-right Spartiates party
Greece's electoral court has decided to postpone its ruling on the far-right Spartiates (Spartans) party until after the completion of the criminal trial involving some of its representatives.
Lamia: National Food Authority (ΕFΕΤ) was to send a team to Giannitsis company before it burnt to the ground
An inspection would have been part of the investigation into the mass food poisoning of school children – An order from the Prosecutor of the Supreme Court has been issued
Prosecutor orders investigation into fire at catering factory linked to mass food poisoning in schools
A Supreme Court prosecutor has ordered officials in Lamia to investigate the causes of a fire that completely destroyed the factory of a catering company that has been linked to an outbreak of food poisoning among primary schoolchildren.
The Giannitsis factory, which was located in an industrial part of the Central Greece city, was completely gutted in a fire on Sunday evening.
A halt towards extended cases by the Supreme Court – Changes with the new law
The law aims to end the disgrace of cases taking 25 years to reach a final verdict – 12,000 cases remain pending – Giorgos Floridis spoke to TO VIMA: The Supreme Court needs to modernise and become efficient
Judicial race against time for Mati ruling review
In the wake of the public outcry sparked by the lenient sentencing of those defendants found guilty in the trial over the state apparatus' handling of the deadly Mati fire in 2018, the Supreme Court prosecutor Georgia Adelini has instructed the head of the Athens Appeals Prosecutor's Office, Kalliopi Vardaki, to scrutinize the decision and the case file in order to immediately file an appeal wi
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Supreme Court moves to appeal Mati wildfire court decision
Supreme Court Prosecutor Georgia Adelini instructed the Prosecutor of the Athens Appeals Court to explore the possibility of appealing the court's decision on the Mati wildfire case.
On July 13, 2018, a wildfire in Mati, a village on the east coast of the Attica region, took 104 lives and injured many.
Supreme Court urges swifter handling of Mati wildfire verdict
The President of the Supreme Court, Ioanna Klapa Christodoulea, seeks swift processing of Monday's ruling by the Athens Three-Member Misdemeanor Court concerning the 2018 Mati wildfires, which claimed 104 lives and left many injured, to prevent potential criminal offenses from expiring.
A dangerous flirtation
There is certainly nothing measly about 244,000 votes. This was, more or less, the number of ballots it took to elect the far-right Spartiates as the fifth biggest party in Parliament in June 2023. A year later, and now the party has been barred from running in the upcoming elections for the European Parliament by the Supreme Court.
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Spartan MPs to go on trial for electoral fraud on June 19
Eleven MPs elected with the far-right Spartans party will go on trial on June 19 on charges of defrauding voters in the 2023 general election.
Five judges were dismissed due to long delays in issuing decisions
The decisions of the Supreme Court - The judges showed their human face to a First Judge who faced repeated serious health problems and yet changed her image radically