Vervesos on iefimerida.gr: “Floridis Law” does not apply in the first instance to Mati

The president of the DSA, Dimitris Vervezos, clarified that the Florida law does not apply at the end of the first instance for Matti.

iefimerida.gr After the explanations of his report on criminal codes Mr. Contacted Vervezos.

It is worth noting that yesterday, Co SYRIZA leader Sokratis Famellos and a party representative argued that the new law 5090/24 had re-adjusted the fines for those sentenced to prison terms. It will be a prison for those who are responsible for it.

Responding from Parliament, Justice Minister G. Floridis spoke of Syriza's hypocrisy and underlined that the 5090/24 law was valid from May 1, i.e. from today, so the court could not weigh in on its decision. Based on the new law.

Mr. Vervezos clarifies, “Accordingly, according to the most favorable regulatory principle, the court applied the regime of the Criminal Code of 2018 (in force since 1951 with its amendments from time to time), which allowed the conversion of fines into money “and how, however,”Law 5090/2024 on the conversion of fines to money was not in force on the day of the court's first-instance judgment for the tragedy in Mati.».

The question of iefimerida.gr and the answer of the head of DSA:

iefimerida.gr: Mr. President, since yesterday many members of the official opposition have been quoting your statement and saying that because of the application of Law 5090/24, the punishment of the accused has been commuted to money, that is why they did not do so. In prison. The Minister of Justice placed in Parliament yesterday that the said Act will come into effect from May 1, 2024. Finally, did Florida law apply or not?

D. Vervezos: Law 5090/2024 reinstated the commutation of a prison sentence of up to two years to a fine as a form of punishment abolished by the introduction of the Criminal Code of 2019. 5090/2024 on 1.5.2024 with transitional provisions.

My entire statement, apart from what I mentioned about other provisions, for those who read it in its entirety, referred to the regime's sentence reduction in effect in 2018, when the Mati tragedy happened. Held under Section 82 of the present Civil Code.

In other words, according to the more favorable regulatory principle, the court applied the regime of the 2018 PC (in force since 1951 with its periodic amendments), which allowed the conversion of fines into money.

However, the law 5090/2024 on the conversion of fines to money does not apply on the day of the publication of the first-instance decision of the court for the tragedy in Mati.