Two investigations launched against Konstantopoulou for filming police officers at the Tempi trial

Two investigations launched against Zoe Konstantopoulou were formed by the Larissa Prosecutor’s Office, pursuing the signaling of constabulary officers connected video during the main proceedings for the Tempi calamity and the work of related excerpts online.

According to information, astatine astir 17:00 connected Thursday, the caput of the Larissa Prosecutor’s Office, Ms. Papaioannou, gave a verbal bid to the Sub-Directorate for Crime Prosecution and Investigation (YDEE) of Larissa successful bid for a lawsuit record to beryllium formed for the matter.

More specifically, the 2 lawsuit files interest the video she recorded and posted connected societal media from wrong the courtroom, and the 2nd 1 she besides uploaded connected TikTok, showing the verbal altercation she had with the constabulary serviceman connected work astatine the entrance.

The improvement had been foreshadowed by the Minister of Justice, Giorgos Floridis, who, speaking connected Alpha 98.9 vigor presumption with Giorgos Evgenidis, referred to “a tiny number that was reacting without protesting for immoderate peculiar reason, simply seeing earlier it the illness of the effort to adjourn the proceedings and, secondly, to determination it to Athens from Larissa,” adding that “in this effort Ms. Konstantopoulou played a starring relation with felony acts by filming a constabulary serviceman without her consent.”

The videos published by Konstantopoulou
In the video from wrong the courtroom, the president of Plefsi Eleftherias was addressing the constabulary officers who had been placed successful beforehand of the lawyers’ benches. “Please, what are you doing present gentlemen and nether whose orders are you present wherever the lawyers’ benches are? Will you apprehension the lawyers? Gentlemen, I’m speaking to you, tin you archer maine what you are doing here?” Ms. Konstantopoulou is heard saying, earlier continuing to movie and adding, “this is the courtroom and they pushed the relatives to the back.”

In the 2nd video, Zoë Konstantopoulou recorded her effort to participate the gathering from the constituent designated for the relatives of the victims of the Tempi tragedy, with the constabulary officers explaining to her that the tribunal president’s determination stipulates that lawyers participate from a antithetic checkpoint. “We privation to walk with our clients; a lawyer is not separated from their clients,” the president of Plefsi Eleftherias was saying, with the constabulary serviceman explaining to her that “by bid of the president you indispensable beryllium accredited astatine different point.”

When the Hellenic Police serviceman pointed retired that “filming is prohibited,” Ms. Konstantopoulou replied, “why is it prohibited? You are connected duty, madam, and what you are doing is what is prohibited. Are you preventing maine from passing?”

Konstantopoulou: The Larissa Misdemeanours Prosecutor assured maine that determination is nary prosecution against me
Earlier, the president of Plefsi Eleftherias, Zoë Konstantopoulou, spoke of a governmental prosecution against her, erstwhile again attacking the Minister of Justice. She besides claimed that the First Instance Prosecutor informed her that determination is nary prosecution against her.

“Mr. Floridis has been going retired for days present and shamelessly pre-announcing assorted prosecutions against me, fundamentally ordering prosecutions against me. He had Mr. Sevastidis qualify maine adjacent arsenic akin to members of the transgression enactment Golden Dawn, which I was the archetypal to telephone a transgression enactment earlier it was elected to Parliament. Today helium announced an ex officio prosecution against me. I was informed a small portion agone that the parliamentary typical of New Democracy successful Parliament besides spoke of an ex officio prosecution against me. A abbreviated portion agone I appeared astatine the Larissa Misdemeanours Prosecutor’s Office and asked to beryllium informed whether specified an ex officio prosecution against maine really exists. The work authoritative assured maine unequivocally that nary specified prosecution existed against me,” Zoë Konstantopoulou stated earlier from Larissa.