The Hellenic Union of Public Prosecutors unequivocally condemns the decision taken by a majority of the Athens Bar Association to request the resignation of the Prosecutor of the Supreme Court, following the handling of the wiretapping case.
The formulation of such a request, outside any constitutional and legislative framework, constitutes a direct and impermissible interference in the functioning of the Judiciary, insults the institution and approaches the characteristics of a serious institutional aberration.
The administration of justice is governed exclusively by the Constitution and the laws and is not subject to pressures or interference that attempt to influence judicial judgment or substitute for the institutionalized control procedures.
Such actions, especially when manifested by institutional collaborators of the judiciary, directly affect its authority and disrupt the balance of the functions of the State.
The independence of Justice is non-negotiable and the Hellenic Union of Public Prosecutors will continue to safeguard it by any means provided for by the institutions, supporting in practice the officers of Justice, regardless of their rank, against any attempt to interfere or question their work.
