The Indare family's trial has come to an end regarding the events that took place during the eviction of a squat in Koukaki and on Matrozou Street in December 2019, both inside and outside his home. At that time police officers beat up the director and his family, and arrested them as soon as they forcibly entered their home. The Three-Member Misdemeanor Appeals Court ruled that the acquittal due to the director's doubts Dimitris Indares as well as those of sons of.
«A stinging rebuke» from the prosecutor
The presiding prosecutor had recommended that they be declared innocent the defendants since it was not established that they committed the crimes of which they are accused.
In fact, in her speech, she referred to contradictions in the police officers' statements with regard to the claims made during the preliminary investigation, and cited the neighbors' statements, who saw the three defendants on the balcony of their home during the police operation to clear the squat, according to dikastiko.gr.
«There is no doubt that Others were the ones who committed the crimes and the other defendants, », who were at home,« he emphasized, adding that "The three defendants most certainly did not commit these acts. They were victims of a blind, brutal, and arbitrary police violence and were used by the police to cover up the resounding failure of the operation. They became scapegoats. I recommend that they be acquitted—not because of reasonable doubt, but because they did not commit the acts of which they are accused.».
«My children were tied up, and the police officers were cursing at their mother.»
«We took a beating. They were like Robocop, and they're accusing me of resisting, of swearing. I didn't have time to do anything—it was like a black storm. An unbelievable barrage of insults—they were hammering away at my head, They were pulling at my arms, and I kept saying, ‘Have mercy, I can’t take it anymore, I’m going to burst.’ My children were tied up, The police officers were cursing at their mother, they said that The whole neighborhood has gotten the idea that I'm not their father. They kept saying that if they hadn't caught us on the roof, but instead If they caught them inside the house, they'd f*** the kids and their mother. »That was my consolation—that, thankfully, they didn't catch us inside the house,« the director had said a few days earlier in his defense, adding that it had been preceded by »chaos, tension, smoke—a very dramatic and terrifying operation.”.
«I apologize for my naivety in believing that the Greek police are there to protect us. (…) »I apologize to my children for my naivety in opening the door to the police officers and going up to my rooftop so they could take us away in handcuffs,” Dimitris Indares had also emphasized.
Next, the following person also appeared before the court to give a statement: one of the sons of Indare (The second defendant in the case was absent, as was his right), who had spoken about physical and non-physical violence inflicted on the family.
«They knocked me down, handcuffed me, and pressed my head against the floor with their boots, I saw my 56-year-old father get kicked in the head with the top of a boot. I was stunned by the violence directed at us. My mother, terrified and still in her nightgown, shouted, ‘What are you doing?’ And they replied: ’Get out of here, you little brat, or I'll throw you down the stairs’,’ he emphasized, among other things.
