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Cyprus News Agency: News in English, 11-12-30
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[01] Attorney General to appeal HELIOS ruling next week
[01] Attorney General to appeal HELIOS ruling next week
The Attorney General has announced that by Wednesday he will appeal
against a Court ruling which acquitted all five defendants in the case
of a fatal air crash in 2005 in which 121 persons died. Speaking to
London Greek Radio (LGR), Attorney General Petros Clerides expressed
his disagreement with the Assize Court decision, taken by a majority of
two to one, saying he will appeal, meeting the deadline of January
4th.
Clerides explained that the appeal process will probably not take more
than a couple of days. At the same time he described as unfair claims
by the relatives of the 121 victims that the Courts decision is a
result of bad handling of the case by the Law Office of the Republic.
In his statements to LGR the Attorney General also referred to last
Julys explosion in Mari in which 13 people lost their lives, stressing
that the incident has jeopardized Cyprus credibility.
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