Two investigations launched against Zoe Konstantopoulou were formed by the Larissa Prosecutor’s Office, following the recording of police officers on video during the main trial for the Tempi tragedy and the publication of related excerpts online.

According to information, at around 17:00 on Thursday, the head of the Larissa Prosecutor’s Office, Ms. Papaioannou, gave a verbal order to the Sub-Directorate for Crime Prosecution and Investigation (YDEE) of Larissa in order for a case file to be formed for the matter.

More specifically, the two case files concern the video she recorded and posted on social media from inside the courtroom, and the second one she also uploaded on TikTok, showing the verbal altercation she had with the police officer on duty at the entrance.

The development had been foreshadowed by the Minister of Justice, Giorgos Floridis, who, speaking on Alpha 98.9 radio station with Giorgos Evgenidis, referred to “a tiny minority that was reacting without protesting for any particular reason, simply seeing before it the collapse of the attempt to adjourn the trial and, secondly, to move it to Athens from Larissa,” adding that “in this effort Ms. Konstantopoulou played a leading role with felony acts by filming a police officer without her consent.”

The videos published by Konstantopoulou
In the video from inside the courtroom, the president of Plefsi Eleftherias was addressing the police officers who had been placed in front of the lawyers’ benches. “Please, what are you doing here gentlemen and under whose orders are you here where the lawyers’ benches are? Will you arrest the lawyers? Gentlemen, I’m speaking to you, can you tell me what you are doing here?” Ms. Konstantopoulou is heard saying, before continuing to film and adding, “this is the courtroom and they pushed the relatives to the back.”

In the second video, Zoë Konstantopoulou recorded her attempt to enter the building from the point designated for the relatives of the victims of the Tempi tragedy, with the police officers explaining to her that the court president’s decision stipulates that lawyers enter from a different checkpoint. “We want to pass with our clients; a lawyer is not separated from their clients,” the president of Plefsi Eleftherias was saying, with the police officer explaining to her that “by order of the president you must be accredited at another point.”

When the Hellenic Police officer pointed out that “filming is prohibited,” Ms. Konstantopoulou replied, “why is it prohibited? You are on duty, madam, and what you are doing is what is prohibited. Are you preventing me from passing?”

Konstantopoulou: The Larissa Misdemeanours Prosecutor assured me that there is no prosecution against me
Earlier, the president of Plefsi Eleftherias, Zoë Konstantopoulou, spoke of a political prosecution against her, once again attacking the Minister of Justice. She also claimed that the First Instance Prosecutor informed her that there is no prosecution against her.

“Mr. Floridis has been going out for days now and shamelessly pre-announcing various prosecutions against me, essentially ordering prosecutions against me. He had Mr. Sevastidis characterize me even as similar to members of the criminal organization Golden Dawn, which I was the first to call a criminal organization before it was elected to Parliament. Today he announced an ex officio prosecution against me. I was informed a little while ago that the parliamentary representative of New Democracy in Parliament also spoke of an ex officio prosecution against me. A short while ago I appeared at the Larissa Misdemeanours Prosecutor’s Office and asked to be informed whether such an ex officio prosecution against me actually exists. The duty prosecutor assured me unequivocally that no such prosecution existed against me,” Zoë Konstantopoulou stated earlier from Larissa.