Former president criticizes handling of wiretapping scandal

[InTime News]

Recent developments successful the wiretapping ungraded person “dealt a important stroke to the bosom of the regularisation of law,” erstwhile Greek president Prokopis Pavlopoulos has said, successful comments sharply captious of the authorities and the justness system.

Speaking astatine an lawsuit successful Athens organised by the Union of Greek Constitutional Scholars and the Administrative Chamber of Greece, Pavlopoulos said the “blow” stemmed some from the enforcement subdivision – “and to beryllium precise, the government” – and, “unfortunately, from manipulations within the justness system itself.”

He said such actions “leave successful acheronian the tolerance oregon adjacent cover-up of practices” that represent a blatant violation of the cardinal close to the confidentiality of communications.

The remarks appeared to notation to Monday’s determination by Greece’s top authoritative not to reopen the wiretapping case, contempt a tribunal ruling calling for further probe into imaginable further offences and suspects.

Pavlopoulos, a erstwhile prof of administrative law, served arsenic interior curate successful a New Democracy authorities from 2004 to 2009 and arsenic president from 2015 to 2020.