The former SYRIZA minister, with this move, apart from the political message he wanted to send about “debt towards the memory of the victims of the tragedy of Tempe and the struggle of their parents and relatives to clarify any aspect of it of this tragedy” also sends a clear double message of differentiation against the line of SYRIZA that it has adopted in its indictment against former minister Kostas Karamanlis regarding criminal responsibilities because Convention 717 had not had time to be completed with the safety systems that would have prevented the accident, as long as and the full adoption of the European prosecutor’s report!
The former minister, in fact, in his statements yesterday mentioned that if the request he submitted to the Speaker of the Parliament and communicated to the parties is accepted, it will be “also an opportunity to respond to the European prosecutor that I was not given the opportunity to and who did not substantiates any charge it requests to be investigated”! Mr. Spirtzis, in fact, mentioned in a conversation with parliamentary editors that he intends to follow up with an appeal to the European Court of Justice in relation to what the European Prosecutor accuses.
Mr. Spirtzis “wished that the other acting ministers of transport would also follow this path”.
The request of Mr. Spirtzis should be discussed at the Conference of Presidents, if approved, then a decision should be taken after discussion by the majority of the Plenary. If there is a positive decision by the House, a Special Committee will be established, consisting of Supreme Judges after drawing lots, which will investigate whether the offense of dereliction of duty or otherwise relating to the implementation of Convention 717 is substantiated (proved) against him . In the event that it is judged that accusations against him are substantiated, then he will be brought to trial by the Special Court”.
Without… parliamentary precedent
The Speaker of the Parliament, Konstantinos Tasoulas, as he also mentioned, transferred Mr. Spirtzis’ request for an opinion to the competent Legal Service of the Parliament for examination and will inform after the Conference of Presidents.
According to information, from a first investigation, what was formulated on the request of the former minister is that there is no parliamentary precedent. In 2018, in a similar request submitted by former minister Andreas Lykourentzos regarding the Novartis case, the Parliament did not even respond to him at the time and his request was never discussed at the Conference of Presidents.
The invocation of the activation of the provision for the initiation of a new judicial investigation of the case by the heirs that exists, is that of the former prime minister, Petros Protopapadakis, who was tried in the “trial of the six” and executed in Goudi in 1922, is not analogous.
In that case, his grandson, former minister and MEP Michalis Protopapadakis, initiated the proceedings in 2008 and after an application drawn up and handled by the lawyer Nikos Vasilatos, requested the review (repetition of the process) of his grandfather’s case and in 2010 the Supreme Court annulled the decision. This case, however, is not analogous to the request of Mr. Spirtzis.
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