Ioanna Klapa

A police officer guarding the residence of the president of the Supreme Court in the Athens suburb of Papagou was injured when unknown individuals hurled petrol bombs against the guard post, shortly after midnight on Wednesday.

Police said the attack happened around 12.45 a.m. The officer suffered injuries to his face and hand and was transferred to a nearby military hospital.

Ioanna Klapa and Georgia Adilini ordered an urgent preliminary disciplinary investigation into the responsibilities of the judge and prosecutor in the case

Supreme Court President Ioanna Klapa has ordered a probe into why the 37-year-old man who murdered an 11-year-old girl in Ilia in the western Peloponnese, southern Greece, on Sunday never served the nine-year jail sentence he was given four years ago for rape.

The resolution adopted last week by the European Parliament regarding press freedom and the threat to the rule of law in Greece was slammed on Thursday by the plenary of the Supreme Court as direct interference in the work of the Greek judicial authorities, regarding a series of cases that are pending before the courts, with unproven and unsubstantiated allegations.

The president of the Supreme Court, Ioanna Klapa, weighed in on Saturday on the issue of widespread zoning and environmental violations on the country's beaches and coasts, calling on judicial authorities to see that justice is administered on an issue that has been at the forefront of the news this summer.

One of the chief investigative magistrates in the trial against the neo-Nazi Golden Dawn organization, Ioanna Klapa, has been appointed as the new president of Greece's Supreme Court.

Klapa became a judge in 1984 and joined the country's highest criminal court in August 2020 after distinguishing herself in the widely publicized trial.

At a time of increasing tensions between Greece and Turkey an Athens court on Friday rejected as "groundless" the third appeal by Ankara for the extradition of eight Turkish servicemen who fled to Greece following the July 2016 coup attempt in Turkey. 

An Athens appeals court on Friday rejected the third appeal by Ankara for the extradition of eight Turkish servicemen who fled to Greece following Turkey's failed coup in July 2016 and who have sought political asylum.

The trial over the September 2013 murder of anti-fascist rapper Pavlos Fyssas by a self-proclaimed member of Golden Dawn, an act that sparked a large-scale investigation into the alleged criminal activities of the neo-Nazi party, is expected to start before the end of the year, Kathimerini has learned.

MPs and members of Golden Dawn are using legal tactics to drag out a criminal investigation into the neofascist party and postpone the beginning of a trial planned for November so that suspects can be released from pretrial custody before judges can decide their fate, Kathimerini understands.