Dendias on Panos Routsis: “I cannot fathom how a father’s right to investigate his child’s death could be denied”

Minister of National Defence Nikos Dendias referred to the lawsuit of hunger striker Panos Routsis during a league successful the Hellenic Parliament.

“We person children — I cannot fathom however a father’s close to analyse what helium deems indispensable regarding the decease of his kid could beryllium denied,” Mr. Dendias said, adding: “On this, we are each successful agreement. I can’t ideate anyone taking a antithetic position. The past happening this antheral needs, successful the midst of his tragedy, is for his circumstances to beryllium made adjacent worse.”

The Minister returned to the contented pursuing comments by SYRIZA President Socrates Famellos, who was speedy to property work for the government’s nonaccomplishment to conscionable Mr. Routsis’ demands.

“I bash not privation to remark further connected the substance of the grieving father. I bash not recognize wherefore blasted is being directed astatine the government, erstwhile this is intelligibly a substance for the judiciary. Of course, we would carnivore work if this were a authorities enactment — but it is not. This falls nether the jurisdiction of the justness system. I person expressed my presumption and I basal with the grieving father.”