Former EU Commissioner Dimitris Avramopoulos has filed a formal appeal and memorandum with the Prosecutor’s Office of the Supreme Court (Areios Pagos), the Court of Appeals Prosecutor’s Office, the Parliamentary Ethics Committee, and the Ministry of Justice, requesting that the European arrest warrant issued against him by Belgian judicial authorities not be executed.
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What Dimitris Avramopoulos argued
According to sources, in his appeal Avramopoulos maintains that he has not committed any criminal offence and contests the legality of the warrant. Specifically, he points out that the warrant’s content fails to define with the required precision the time, place, and circumstances of the acts attributed to him — details which, under both Greek and European law, must be explicitly and clearly stated.
He further argues that the warrant does not contain adequate reference to the national judicial decision or national arrest warrant that formed its legal basis for issuance, as required under the applicable legal framework.
