Greek surveillance scandal grows bigger as politician expelled from ruling party files lawsuit against the National Intelligence Service for violation of constitutional rights
On August 8, Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis acknowledged that Greece’s intelligence agency wiretapped opposition politician Nikos Androulakis.
A Greek politician who was placed under surveillance by the country’s National Intelligence Service has started court proceedings over violation of privacy and constitutional rights, the latest victim of a wiretapping scandal that has rocked Athens. The lawsuit by Giorgos Kyrtsos, a member of the European Parliament who was expelled from the ruling Nea Dimokratia party following his criticism of the government for curtailing press freedom in the country, targeted three protagonists of the illegal surveillance operations, said the Avgi daily.
Former EYP chief Panagiotis Kontoleon, EYP prosecutor Vasiliki Vlachou and former deputy director of the EYP Evangelia Georgakopoulou, mentioned in the lawsuit, are prominent figures who supervised wide-ranging surveillance operations that targeted numerous prominent journalists, generals and politicians, including Kyrtsos, it added.
Speaking to journalists outside the prosecutor's office, Kyrtsos said he is taking legal action because his constitutional rights have been violated and he was considered a threat to national security.His lawyer, Giannis Mantzouranis, “expects competent prosecutors to do their duty, to close their ears to orders and instructions from above and to resist pressure in the hope that they will not act as legal advisers to the EYP.
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