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[miltiades]

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world ... 39273.html

Greece, the cradle of democracy !!!

[kurupetos]

It's because those farmers support PASOK and not GD.

[Lordo]

pasok to you too you swinekant.

[kurupetos]

pasok to you too you swinekant.

WTF, did you have to much white cheese?

[Nikitas]

Four accused, two get fourteen years apiece, two get aquitted.

The prosecution prepared... not at all. Interpreters conversant with the dialect of the witnesses were not available, no witness unequivocally identified the two aquitted as being the shooters. The other two were identified and got fourteen years. So what is the shock about? The court can only work on what is made available, not on external opinion. The lawyers feigning shock were the ones who failed to do their preparatory work. They thought they would sail through just because of extremely prejudicial media reports against the accused. They miscalculated and now they will go to the EU court and failing to give proof they will achieve another big zero.

[Lordo]

could the judge not postpone the trial till the interpreters could be found. how the hell did they have a trial with people unable to give evidence. you call this justice.

[kurupetos]

could the judge not postpone the trial till the interpreters could be found. how the hell did they have a trial with people unable to give evidence. you call this justice.

It would have been worse if it happened in Turkey. They would have been buried under ground and nobody would ever hear of this.

[Nikitas]

They had interpreters, but the workmen apparently spoke a dialect, that the interpreter, (provided by the embassy), was not fluent in. The authorities and the embassy only found out about the languate problem AFTER the verdict when the interpreter told reporters.

Democracy is no shield against incompetence. A first year law student would have known enough to get the right interpreter and would have brough only the charges supported by the evidence and not tried to make a bigger deal out of it. The charges of trafficking were simply not supported by the evidence, the wounding was, and it should have been enough. But Greeks wanted to make legal history with the trafficking charge. They did, but not the way they expected, jurors cannot be fooled all the time.

[GreekIslandGirl]

Personally, I don't approve of this attitude of always assuming the illegal/legal immigrants are in the right and that the nasty-natives must be in the wrong.

For sure, migrants are mostly victims of their own country's failures; but that doesn't instantly make them victims of their (legally or illegally) resident country's systems.

These are difficult times for all and we need to stop squabbling among ourselves and pursue those who are really controlling us and our life-decisions.