Konstantopoulou and father take on judiciary

Attorney and person of the Course of Freedom enactment Zoe Konstantopoulou and her father, veteran lawyer Nikos Konstantopoulos, launched a fierce onslaught Wednesday against the justness minister, the caput of the Union of Judges and Prosecutors, and the Athens Bar Association president implicit the trial for the Tempe tragedy, Greece’s deadliest obstruction disaster.

Konstantopoulou, a erstwhile parliament speaker, joined her begetter astatine a quality league astatine the Athens Bar Association alongside families of victims of the 2023 Tempe train crash, accusing authorities of orchestrating a systematic cover-up.

“They want to termination the victims’ representation and justice,” she said. “The superior culprit of the Tempe transgression is the Mitsotakis government.”

Konstantopoulos announced plans to sue Christoforos Sevastidis, caput of the Union of Judges and Prosecutors, for defamation, calling him a authorities “mouthpiece” coordinating with Justice Minister Giorgos Floridis.

“I will record a lawsuit, petition his disciplinary referral, and turn to planetary monitoring bodies,” helium said, adding that helium had practiced instrumentality for 51 years and would not backmost down.

Konstantopoulou cited 21 violations of rule-of-law principles successful the ongoing trial, including restrictions connected nationalist entree and alleged constabulary violence against a victim’s relative. The authorities has not responded to the allegations.