Law office involved in prison riots

Supreme Court prosecutor Efterpi Kotzamani has ordered inquiries of a law office in Athens for fomenting rioting in at least two major correctional facilities in order to react to government plans to set up a maximum security facility at Domokos to house terrorists and organized crime convicts.

The cause for the inquest was a document found in Korydallos and Kerkyra prisons motivating inmates to insurrection. The document was being passed around by inmates that were gathering signatures.

In Kerkyra it seems to have reached two inmates by fax. One was a Greek and the other, an Albanian, is the cousin of Albanian criminal Marian Kola who has escaped from Trikala prison along with eleven other inmates. Kola was later killed in a police operation to arrest him.

The justice ministry, after accessing the document, asked the supreme court prosecutor to intervene.

The fax seems to have been sent from a law office in Athens prompting inmates to react through insurrection to government plans for a maximum security prison. The same document was also found in Korydallos prison.