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00:00:07as long as there is a complaint, as long as there is information, and as long as
00:00:10you exist,
00:00:13I say every time you said that every week one or
00:00:16two cases of this type will come out, two of this and other types, a total of 10, let's
00:00:20keep that in mind, Mr. Hotzoglou. They are also coming to the catering industry
00:00:23and others.
00:00:26We are informed that some are already in the investigation process. Some
00:00:30chains, we are waiting to see what will happen. What we need to
00:00:34keep in mind, however, is that as such
00:00:37cases come out and employees find themselves uncovered from
00:00:40one day to the next, there must finally be a legal framework
00:00:44for the protection of employees by the state for such
00:00:48cases. Good morning to all, thank you very much, be well.
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00:10:03We're back here before we meet the Deputy Minister of Justice, with whom we have many interesting things
00:10:06to discuss. Kina Michailidou will join us because we have an issue with Mr.
00:10:10Varoufakis and the banks. Yiannis Varoufakis, in a post,
00:10:14complains that a Belgian bank closed his
00:10:17DM25 account. Here he specifically states
00:10:20in his post, "Our bank in Brussels closed our account, the one
00:10:24to which of thousands of our members from all over Europe, money
00:10:28with which the movement operates, suddenly, without
00:10:31reason or warning." This was followed by
00:10:34a post from DM-25. If we can see it, it is
00:10:38a small excerpt where they ask for donations
00:10:42from all those who want to support the movement to
00:10:45pay the rents and the salaries. Let's
00:10:48see it. So suddenly and without any
00:10:51warning, it seems that a bank can block access to
00:10:55even the minimal funds you have. You know, for
00:10:59us, these funds were very important, because with them we paid our
00:11:02full team and, of course, we also covered the operating
00:11:06needs of our movement. So, at the time our team is trying to
00:11:09solve the issue of access to a bank account, we
00:11:13ask you to support us financially, even a few euros can really
00:11:17make a big difference. In the description of the video you will find the relevant link to
00:11:21make your own donation. That we rely on...
00:11:25and only on your solidarity and only with that will we continue to
00:11:29proceed.
00:11:31So they are appealing for donations from all those who wish to
00:11:35support DM25. Now, of course, all this caused a storm
00:11:39of reactions on social media, social media, social media, and mainly on
00:11:43former Twitter, where they took Mr. Varoufakis's post
00:11:46and started writing. You will see
00:11:50now you understand what it means not to have access to a bank account. Let's see another
00:11:53one. This is actually, we have two
00:11:57more. If the bank had humor, it would not have closed your account,
00:12:00it would have let you withdraw 60€ a day after waiting
00:12:04one or two hours at the ATM, and another one when karma is in
00:12:07a crazy mood. Yes, and many others follow, of course, but now
00:12:11we chose three indicative ones. Tina, thank you. Well,
00:12:14Tina, if banks suddenly close and
00:12:18you have 60€ and a two-hour queue, that's an issue. It's an
00:12:21issue. It's an issue. And do you remember what was happening then? I guess we all remember it.
00:12:33and relationships back then, yes, we socialized. Hello,
00:12:36sir, sir, good morning. Uh, let's
00:12:39start a little with current affairs. One of
00:12:43the current affairs that the Prime Minister has also put on the table, are the
00:12:47penal codes that changed under
00:12:50Tsipras, and in fact the elections were delayed, parliament remained open
00:12:53for the vote on these penal
00:12:57codes. This specific committee, because Mr.
00:13:00Tsipras says that when
00:13:03you attack us for this, you attack the scientific team.
00:13:07It continued to exist during Mitsotakis's
00:13:10term. This committee was formed with the exclusive
00:13:13task, exclusive duty, of drafting the penal code and the code of criminal
00:13:17procedure. So, from the time the codes were handed over to the
00:13:21Ministry of Justice, while under the Tsipras government,
00:13:24this committee no longer had a reason to exist, it submitted the draft law for the
00:13:28penal code and the code of criminal procedure and since then
00:13:32it has not met again. Therefore, there was no committee
00:13:35afterwards. It completed its work and was abolished by the
00:13:39ministerial decision. Committee, we formed a working
00:13:42group for the next change, for the next changes that
00:13:46were made, a package of reforms in the
00:13:49first period of the government, where we essentially
00:13:52abolished those provisions that... seriously downgraded crimes, such
00:13:56as the crime of bribery, which I remind you
00:13:59had become a misdemeanor from a felony, and
00:14:02this was also
00:14:05changed in 2019 with the first changes made by the
00:14:09Mitsotakis government, and of course
00:14:12the major changes that occurred in the codes, both in the penal
00:14:16code and in the code of criminal procedure, were in 2024 with the
00:14:20current political leadership of the Ministry of Justice, where we had
00:14:23extensive.
00:14:27These
00:14:30changes were made by a working group, especially the major
00:14:34change of 2024 was made by a working group which
00:14:38was established by the Minister of Justice, submitted the
00:14:41draft law for the changes to the penal code, and of course then
00:14:44it didn't have that sorry that suspicions are
00:14:48left that Mr. Tsipras acted in favor of some people. Mr.
00:14:51Georgiadis says, who I think has a birthday today.
00:15:01and we know each other, no one speaks to tell us
00:15:05if they concerned someone, that is, did Mr. Tsipras serve
00:15:07interests? Listen, from the
00:15:11result, due to my institutional capacity, I cannot say
00:15:14specific things, but if one searches and says, for
00:15:18example, they were released from
00:15:21prison because they were temporarily detained for serious offenses,
00:15:25which fell into the category of misdemeanor from felony,
00:15:28criminally, criminally, of course, we are talking about the penal
00:15:31codes, for whom criminal prosecution was not initiated
00:15:34and what was investigated by the police authorities. For
00:15:38serious offenses, who finally escaped
00:15:41due to the statute of limitations, I think that these cases are known
00:15:45to the judicial authorities, they are identified, rather, and one
00:15:49can, if they wish, specifically speak with names, surnames, I cannot do that.
00:15:53These are the IOUs that Kyriakos Mitsotakis mentioned, because that's why,
00:15:56because Mitsotakis said Tsipras should tell us which IOUs
00:16:00he paid off, he is probably referring, he is referring to what you
00:16:03are saying, someone being served.
00:16:07A criminal is very much, anyone to be served. The
00:16:11lenient treatment of serious offenses by the
00:16:14penal codes of 2019 created the
00:16:18conditions for some who were being prosecuted for felonies to
00:16:22escape. I think that this is the
00:16:25framework within which I can speak with my current
00:16:28capacity. I will tell you, they are estimated in the
00:16:31hundreds. However, be careful, the Paraskevopoulos law
00:16:35had preceded, which was implemented
00:16:38from 2015 to 2019. The Paraskevopoulos
00:16:41law had the justification that
00:16:44prisons should be decongested,
00:16:48because there was a large number of prisoners and our country
00:16:51was at risk of sanctions from the European
00:16:54Court due to the large
00:16:57number of prisoners or pre-trial detainees.
00:17:00Indeed, throughout Europe, there are from time to time
00:17:04such laws, of course it is an
00:17:07exception that happens, it is not a usual procedure, the usual procedure
00:17:11is that someone who goes to prison serves their sentence. So here
00:17:15indeed there are such laws, however, the Paraskevopoulos
00:17:18law had no distinction whatsoever. With
00:17:22the sole condition of serving the minimum
00:17:26sentence, people could be released from
00:17:29prisons, detainees who had been
00:17:33irrevocably convicted of very serious
00:17:36offenses such as the crime of rape, if I remember correctly, for felonies,
00:17:40the sole condition was the serving of 2/5 of the
00:17:43sentence imposed by the court. You understand, then, that a very
00:17:47large number of detainees who had been
00:17:50convicted of very serious offenses, these people
00:17:53were released. It is estimated that the total number
00:17:57of
00:17:59detainees who were released was 17.
00:18:03Perhaps more than 17. You understand, then,
00:18:07that condition, without anyone being able
00:18:11to examine, or rather without judicial authorities examining whether they
00:18:14had been rehabilitated and whether the essential
00:18:17conditions existed for them to be released, they were released with the sole
00:18:21condition of serving the minimum period. This, sir, you know,
00:18:24is also an issue that concerns the rule of law. I understand the
00:18:28need to decongest the
00:18:31prisons, but I do not understand a regulation which
00:18:34has.
00:18:37Now with the new codes, some returned to prison, those who committed
00:18:40crimes, and many of them committed crimes because they returned
00:18:44to crime and serious crime. Today they are once again
00:18:48imprisoned or in any case being prosecuted for the crimes they have committed. So
00:18:51now we have a series of scandals that have come to light. Will
00:18:55people go to prison? Is there a legal arsenal to deal with these?
00:18:59I think we have explained that the legal arsenal, after
00:19:02the changes of 2024, is very strong, and I must tell you that our country
00:19:06has incorporated all international treaties
00:19:10and European legislation for the
00:19:13prosecution and judicial assistance, because judicial assistance is also a major chapter,
00:19:16so that we can exchange information, have
00:19:20the information that is provided to deal with
00:19:24organized crime and, in particular, financial crime.
00:19:27And this arsenal, that the police do their job,
00:19:31they are arrested, they go to court and remain
00:19:34free, this from 2024 onwards,
00:19:38uh, it cannot apply and it is an argument that has
00:19:41been dismissed and I will explain why, yes, uh, the goal of the
00:19:44Ministry in 2024 was on the one hand to toughen the
00:19:47sentences, on the other hand to make the process
00:19:51faster, and we had said that it is not enough to
00:19:54toughen the sentences, the sentences imposed,
00:19:58especially for misdemeanors, must be served, and
00:20:01we legislated, without having changed it to
00:20:04this day, that whoever is sentenced to a major punishment.
00:20:11So this acted repressively. While we have
00:20:14an increase in the number of prisoners in prisons, this is
00:20:18true. However, we also have a reduction in
00:20:21petty and medium-level crime that plagues
00:20:24citizens. And of course, the police have at their disposal modern
00:20:28means. They have, the day before yesterday I was at a
00:20:31presentation for the Directorate of Organized Crime, for organized
00:20:35crime precisely, where they presented
00:20:40this new service of the Greek FBI. Therefore,
00:20:43new technologies are at the service of police
00:20:46forces. Justice has a strong legal
00:20:50arsenal at the disposal of judges and prosecutors. We are a country that truly
00:20:54deals with and deals with effectiveness and strictness,
00:20:58because we are also in an election period now and the latest
00:21:01legislations are crucial. What are you preparing now, what are you bringing
00:21:05in the next period? Uh, we
00:21:07have already period and until the end of the
00:21:11current government term, we will have five legislations.
00:21:15It will be the Lawyers' Code with serious changes in the exercise of the
00:21:18legal profession. It will be the new
00:21:22draft law for administrative procedure and the map of administrative
00:21:26courts, the co-ownership code, the
00:21:30platform. This is for apartment buildings, this is for apartment buildings and not only for apartment
00:21:33buildings. You cannot imagine how many
00:21:37calls we have received about this issue. When will this be passed?
00:21:41If inheritance law had a very
00:21:44great appeal, this will have multiple appeal because there is no Greek who.
00:21:48οποίος.
00:21:53The committee that has been
00:21:55established is completing its work at the end of the
00:21:59year, and we hope that
00:22:02by the time parliament closes, that is, February or March, we will have passed the co-ownership
00:22:06code to provide solutions to dozens, truly
00:22:09dozens of problems that come from the distant past. I must tell you that the
00:22:13first law on co-ownership in Greece was enacted in
00:22:161929. Since then, changes have come in 110. 1116
00:22:23legislations have changed the original law without these having been codified, and
00:22:27you understand now this labyrinthine
00:22:31legislation and how many problems it creates
00:22:34today in transactions and in the exploitation of real estate. Almost all
00:22:38our fellow citizens who are owners are suffering. The other two, the other two are the
00:22:42bill for the tax department which is being reformed with the tax department so that it can
00:22:46play a role
00:22:49as a manager in the courts and to relieve judges from issues
00:22:53of procurement management that they undertake today,
00:22:56and a very important piece of legislation that is a continuation of inheritance
00:23:00law is the digital platform where after the
00:23:04death of any natural person, creditors
00:23:08will be able to find out the assets of the estate and
00:23:11heirs will be informed immediately of the debts,
00:23:14so that creditors know if there are assets
00:23:18from which they can be satisfied.
00:23:24which will remain so they can also take
00:23:27it as
00:23:30In closing, Mr. Minister, let's also touch upon
00:23:33current political affairs. Mr. Samaras says that
00:23:36you are trying to feed the people with pizzas and country
00:23:39bread.
00:23:42Uh, he is referring to the solving of a serious
00:23:46crime, or rather many crimes. I don't want to
00:23:50downplay it or trivialize it.
00:23:53I think this is an obvious
00:23:57obligation of the state to solve crimes,
00:24:01especially those that have very significant and serious implications for the national
00:24:05economy, to quickly bring the perpetrators to
00:24:08justice, to have a fair
00:24:11trial, and for the sentences imposed by the courts to be served.
00:24:15I think this is the framework within which we should operate, and not these
00:24:18slogans which I don't know who they are addressed to. Thank you very much,
00:24:22sir. Do you have any measurement,
00:24:26after all, any development, any data on how the
00:24:29reforms you have made are going? We have absolutely reliable data
00:24:33every quarter, which comes
00:24:36to the relevant service of the Ministry of Justice from all the
00:24:39courts of the country, and these are confirmed
00:24:42by the CEPEJ and by other international
00:24:46organizations that observe the effectiveness of the
00:24:51most recent data are very encouraging.
00:24:54After the implementation of the judicial map, I must tell you that the clearance rate has
00:24:58now increased to 110% from 86% before the implementation of the
00:25:02judicial map. We have significant successes in the major courts,
00:25:06with the most significant being at the Athens Court of First Instance, where we have
00:25:10reduced the time for issuing a decision
00:25:13at the first instance by a third, and the clearance rate has
00:25:17risen from 85% to 141%. This is
00:25:20what gives us the optimism that by the
00:25:23end of the government's term, we will have achieved the national goal we had
00:25:27set to have Greek justice administered in approximately
00:25:31700 days, from 1492 which it was in
00:25:342023. This is the average of the countries of the Council of Europe.
00:25:37Thank you, sir.
00:25:41Let's say that we have information that there is a
00:25:45phone call, that there is a bomb on an airplane from Dublin
00:25:48to Rome. In a little while we will have Yiannis Chaniotakis with us to give
00:25:52us details. And for the beginning of the show, we forgot
00:25:56to mention, fortunately we have Nikos Stamatelos who tells us that Mitroglou also had a hat trick in the
00:26:00Champions League. Indeed. Commercials,
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