Criminal procedure

A prime suspect in the homicide case involving a police officer during fan riots in Athens last December has been remanded into custody following his surrender to the authorities. 

The 36-year-old suspect, known as "Romanian," holds a prominent position within the Gate 7 ultras fan club associated with Olympiakos. Accompanied by his legal representative, he surrendered on Monday. 

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In a recent judicial decision that has stirred public interest, former gambling mogul, businessman, and politician, Vasil Bozhkov, has been released from house arrest by the Sofia City Court. The court granted Bozhkov's release against a bail of BGN 130,000, considering the eight-month period he spent under house arrest as a new circumstance.

One of the main suspects in the hooligan clashes that resulted in the death of a police officer in Athens in December was rushed to hospital on Saturday after what is thought to have been a suicide attempt.

A 38-year-old man, wanted on charges of participating in a terrorist organization, has been arrested by police authorities. 

The arrest occurred Monday afternoon in the Peloponnesian city of Patras, with personnel from the Counterterrorism Unit and the Patras Security Sub-Directorate involved. 

Four individuals held on remand for a year on suspicion of robbing ATMs and burgling homes in Thessaloniki have been granted conditional release after a court said that it was not competent to hear their case.

The prosecutor has proposed the guilt of 9 defendants and the acquittal of a total of 12 individuals

Supreme Court Prosecutor Georgia Adelini on Wednesday rejected accusations that there is an ongoing effort to cover up presumptive misdealings by guilty parties in the official investigation into the deadly train crash at Tempe last year. 

"There is absolutely no judicial cover-up in the case of the Tempe accident," Adelini said at the 9th Economic Forum of Delphi. 

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. 

The court's decision on the verge of the end of Michos' 18-month pre-trial detention