Conviction was requested by the prosecutor of the bench of the Single-Member Misdemeanours Court, Dimitris Pavlidis, for the four defendants (for 3 misdemeanours) in the wiretapping case via the illegal Predator software.
He stated that this is a case which, due to its size and complexity, should not have been tried in a single-member court, leaving a pointed remark about the way it was handled by the Supreme Court, which had ruled out the EYP–Predator connection and did not identify any felony, with the result that it was downgraded.
The prosecutor also requested the conversion of some acts from “continuing” (offence) that are brought in as “in accumulation.” If his recommendation is accepted by the court, it will have as a consequence increased penalties.
The case included surveillances of ministers, politicians of the opposition, journalists, and officials of the Armed Forces.
“It is crystallised that the use of the software in the country is illegal. It violates, brutally, personal data. It constitutes a threat to the core of the democratic system because it gives powers to people who should not have them… Any use of it by services should constitute ….a point of awakening,” stressed Mr Pavlidis, who noted that it is indisputable that “Predator operated in the territory of Greece.”
The acts, according to the charge, were committed in the period 2020–2021 and for the four defendants the more favourable law (of 2019) is applied, which downgraded the offence of violation of the secrecy of communications from a felony to a misdemeanour.
Sources: APE-MPE, Kathimerini, News247, Ef.Syn
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