SYRIZA launches fire against the government, but also against the leadership of the Supreme Court in its announcement about Supreme Court decision on wiretapping case.
“As of today, the phone hacking scandal bears the hallmark of the leadership of the Supreme Court. The Greek Judiciary, at the highest level, not only failed to facilitate the clarification of the scandal, but also failed to prevent its cover-up,” Koumoundourou said in his statement, adding that “the archiving – and this is through a simple press release by the Attorney General – constitutes a decision to degrade and trivialize the prestige of an institution that is the guardian of the Republic.”
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For SYRIZA, “it is alarming that the archiving has been accelerated at a time when journalistic investigations are revealing new facts”. “At a time when it had just been revealed that one in three of those who were victims of Predator surveillance were also being monitored by the EYP. Exactly the same people. And this was considered a ‘mere coincidence’?” the party asks, noting that “the questions are endless: the Supreme Court ruled that party leaders, half of the cabinet, journalists, army chiefs, etc. constituted a ‘national threat’, and were therefore duly monitored by the EYP. Why and in what way?”
“They must therefore explain to us why a series of names constituted a national threat”, the party stresses, adding that “the presentation of the telephone tapping scandal also affects the international image of the country, which is under European judicial and political control for this main issue”.
“Political parties, citizens, independent judiciary officials, journalists and the media must fight to protect our democratic institutions. The phone hacking scandal – the Mitsotakis and Dimitriadis scandal – will not and should not remain in the archives. The journalistic investigation will continue the revelations and the independent judiciary, under another democratic government, will hold those responsible to account,” it stresses, noting that “accountability for the phone hacking scandal is not a matter of one party, or even one faction. It is a matter of democracy, which is why, from the very beginning, political leaders and lawyers from all factions have raised it in the public debate, demanding its clarification.” “It is now clear that this cannot be done with Kyriakos Mitsotakis as Prime Minister,” the SYRIZA statement concludes.
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