Justified considered the Minister of Development, Adonis Georgiades, the manipulations of police officers of of the DIA team, during bloody chase in Perama that led to one death on Friday night.
Georgiades for Perama: «Car ramming is a deadly weapon»
Speaking to SKAI, the κ. Georgiadis, stressed that «the car ram is considered a lethal weapon, so it is perfectly justifiable to defend the police officers. They had to chase it.».
As he said, what was done correctly and what was not, will be judged by the disciplinary process, the which was rightly ordered by the Minister of Civil Protection.
At the same time, he commented that «it is very unfair to place the incident on a racist basis, because it was impossible in the middle of the night for the police to know who was driving the car and what origin it was». «If the officers' intent had been homicidal, all three in the vehicle would have been killed. Ο number of shots fired,-38 bullets, shows that there was no such intention,» he said.
On the information that the police officers received orders to stop the chase and they did not, Georgiades commented that if a police officer considers that a vehicle is dangerous, he must pursue it.
He also expressed his doubt that there is a police officer who would give what he described as an illegal order. The Development Minister welcomed the fact that «a large section of the public, for the first time in a long time, is showing its support for the police.».
