Nine months after the Greek prison guards were brought to trial upon
suspicions for the death of Albanian Ilia Kareli, Prosecutor Joanna
Zografou described their responsibility for torture, and also
facilitated their position by saying that death did not come because of
tortures, but because of a heart infarct that had started at the
Malandrino prison.
Basically, the Prosecution demanded to convert the charges from “specific torturea” to “simple tortures”, which would remove 5 to 20 years of prison from the sentence of 13 guards.
The Prosecution argues that Kareli’s heart was delicate and she connected it with the stress he suffered in Malandrino, after the repeated rejections of his request to take a permit from prison, and for being beateen at the Fokida prison, after he killed prison guard Giorgos Tsironis with a self made weapon.
“This is what started the cardiac arrest”, she said, underlining that the 13 prison guards of Nigrita didn’t know he had been suffering from it for the past two days.
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