Panos Ruci Ends Strike as Greek Prosecutors Greenlight Tempi Toxicological Tests

Panos Ruci announces the termination of the hunger onslaught astatine Syntagma Square. Credit: AMNA

After a grueling 23-day hunger strike, Panos Ruci, whose lad Dennis mislaid his beingness successful the tragic Tempi bid accident, has ended his struggle. The determination came pursuing a important improvement wherever Greek prosecutors officially approved the exhumation of bodies, including his son’s, for afloat toxicological testing.

This critical reversal by the state met the father’s halfway demand, which helium had pursued extracurricular the Greek Parliament aft his archetypal petition for exhumation and investigating was denied. The bid efficaciously reopens the lawsuit to code concerns raised by families implicit the victims’ existent origin of decease and imaginable forensic failures.

Panos Ruci’s “victory against the state” implicit Tempi

Ruci and his lawyer, Zoe Konstantopoulou, announced the extremity of the onslaught connected Tuesday day (October 7), declaring a triumph against authorities resistance.

Konstantopoulou emphasized the motivation triumph of the effort: “Today it is proven that airy tin decision darkness. A idiosyncratic with the spot of his soul, with the enactment of society, tin decision the cruelest and astir ruthless mechanisms.”

The lawyer elaborate the tangible results of the struggle, noting that the lawsuit is present being reopened for a broad investigation. She pointed retired that the effort led to the retrieval of 3,000 pages of documents which were antecedently withheld, stating: “The lawsuit record that we clasp successful our hands includes everything that the Prosecutor’s Office and the Larissa researcher had hidden and considered unnecessary to investigate.”

Konstantopoulou described the betterment of the transgression lawsuit record arsenic a “major victory” for Ruci, adjacent arsenic she simultaneously accused the authorities of “sadistic” procedures and wide efforts to conceal information.

Panos Ruci, who gained widespread nationalist support passim his protest, stated: “The hunger onslaught ends today. I convey those who person been by my broadside each this time.” The efforts of different affected relatives, specified arsenic Vasilis Hadjicharalambous, begetter of 29-year-old Panagiotis, were besides noted arsenic important successful pressuring the authorities.

The prosecutor’s bid mandates that a new, dedicated lawsuit record volition beryllium established to compile the findings from the toxicological tests, with the grounds acceptable to beryllium utilized successful the main transgression trial.