Legal procedure

Former bank chairman cleared of murder attempt

Lavrentis Lavrentiadis was found not guilty Friday, along with six co-defendants, by an Athens court of the charge of the attempted murder of a hotel owner in 2012.

According to the prosecuting attorney, the attempt occurred in June 2012, when an explosive device was placed in a plant pot at the house of Athinagoras Andreadakis in the Vouliagmeni suburb of Athens.

Lawyers of ISIL suspects withdraw from trial

A court has postponed to June 17 the trial of suspected Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) militants who attacked a Turkish gendarmerie post in the Central Anatolian province of Ni?de, after the lawyers of the defendants withdrew from the trial on March 5.

The defendants' lawyers said they did not want to plead and left the court room.

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