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RSS FeedsEndless Jeopardy for Greece´s Former Statistics Chief Georgiou
(WorldNews Greece)

 
 

1 june 2018 18:19:14

 
Endless Jeopardy for Greece´s Former Statistics Chief Georgiou
(WorldNews Greece)
 


Unlike United States where there´s a double jeopardy law and if you´re acquitted of a crime you can shout from the rooftops you did it and can´t be charged again, in Greece prosecutors and governments can keep coming at you to find scapegoats. The double jeopardy concept preventing repeated prosecution goes back to Ancient Greece, but in Modern Greece the injustice system is so uneven most people accused of even a serious crime won´t have their names revealed. While it can take a decade or longer for some trials, if a government wants to get you, you´re in court the next day faster than you can say double jeopardy, a perverse game show here. The insane case of Andreas Georgiou, a former...


 
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