The prosecutor’s office proceeded with the criminal prosecution for assault against a member of parliament in the exercise of his duties (Article 157 of the Criminal Code) against MP Konstantinos Floros for the attack against MP Vassilis Grammenos.
After the prosecution, the accused was taken to the office of the investigating judge, where he requested and receiveda deadline to make a statement tomorrow, Thursday. Until then he will remain in custody at the GADA.
Frame by frame the incident in the Parliament – Grammenos with a broken nose:
Wild and unprecedented were the images that took place at noon outside the plenary session of the Parliament, when the independent MP, who had been elected with the Spartans Konstantinos Floros attacked and hit the MP of the Hellenic Solution Vassilis Grammenos, resulting in him being taken to the General Hospital with a fractured nose.
Konstantinos Floros, who was transferred shortly after 19.15 at Evelpidon, was detained in the previous hours at the GADA, where he was taken accompanied by police officers of the parliament’s guard.
He is facing the felony charge of assaulting a member of parliament in the performance of his duties.
The parliamentary representative of the Hellenic Solution, Konstantinos Hitas, spoke about the development of MP Vassilis Grammenos’ health. As he explained, the MP was taken to the hospital after being punched by the independent MP Konstantinos Floros.
There it was found that he had suffered a fracture of the nasal bones, sprained and strained acromioclavicular joint and a traumatic rupture of the wrist ligament and the pheoocarpic joint. The Member of Parliament has been fitted with a splint and has been given 10 days’ sick leave.
The unprecedented incident, reportedly due to a “feud” between the Hellenic Solution and the independent MP, took place while the president of the Hellenic Solution Kyriakos Velopoulos was on the floor of the Parliament, discussing the lifting of his immunity, following the complaint filed by MP Floros’ father regarding anonymous Twitter accounts insulting him.
How the incident happened:
Hellenic Solution spokesman Konstantinos Hitas said he was in favour of lifting immunity, although he said the lawsuit was not linked to Mr Velopoulos. Then Konstantinos Floros jumped up and said that the court would decide that.
Immediately, members of the Hellenic Solution began to vulgarly insult Konstantinos Floros.
According to reports, Vassilis Grammenos said to the independent MP “I’m going to fuck you, I’m going to send you to prison with bracelets” and Konstantinos Floros replied “come out and tell me”.
Konstantinos Floros, as shown in the video, walked out of the room in a rage, while a member of parliament tried to stop him, but without success.
Then, just outside the plenary, the independent MP grabbed Vassilis Grammenos by the collar, punched him and threw something at him. Mr. Grammenos was taken to the Chamber’s infirmary for first aid, and was then taken to the General Hospital, where he was found to have suffered a fractured nose.
Police authorities proceeded to arrest the independent MP, who was taken to the offices of the Attica General Police Directorate under Article 157 of the Criminal Code for Violence against a political body or the government.
“We will make sure that the consequences of this act are as severe as possible,” said Parliament Speaker Konstantinos Tasoulas. “Unfortunately, the regulation does not provide for this brutal behaviour so I dare say it is quite lenient because when we made it, we thought we were addressing elementarily reasonable people,” he added.
Specifically, he said that under Section 157 of the Penal Code, it provides that anyone who commits violence against a member of Parliament is punishable with up to 10 years imprisonment.
He also pointed out that Mr. Grammenos did not even have time to vote in an ongoing vote of the Parliament.
He even pointed out that MP immunity covers misdemeanours but not automatic felonies, so “we can indict the perpetrator of this vulgar and barbaric attack for an automatic felony.”
