Christos Sartzetakis
Christos Sartzetakis (Greek Χρήστος Σαρτζετάκης; born April 6, 1929 in Thessaloniki ) was Minister of Greece from 1985 to 1990 He is married to Efi Argyriou and the couple have a daughter..
Career
His father came from Crete, his mother from Macedonia. He studied law at the University of Thessaloniki and then worked from 1954 as a lawyer. In 1955 he received a nomination for a judgeship. Later he joined as a judge in the civil service. As a judge of first instance, he worked from 1957 to 1959 in Thessaloniki from 1959 to 1962 in Agrinio and again in 1962 in Thessaloniki.
As coroner Sartezakis was responsible for the investigation of the alleged " fatal accident " Grigoris Lambrakis of Representatives on 22 May 1963 in Thessaloniki. He revealed this accident as a murder plot and pointed entanglements of police, military, judiciary, government officials and right-wing circles after. This case is Costa -Gavras film Z -known based on the eponymous book by Vassilis Vassilikos.
Sartzetakis went to a postgraduate study of commercial law and European Community law to Paris Faculté de Droit et to the Économiques des Sciences de Paris and Centre Universitaire of the Études of the Communauté Européenne. In 1967 he was recalled to the coup of the colonels in Greece, relieved of May 1968, his role as a judge.
After his ouster, he was arrested twice under the regime of the colonels. The second time he remained about a year in prison, where he became the first 50 days at the EAT / ESA, an interrogation department of the military police, heavily tortured. The more prison time he was imprisoned in Korydallos prison without having been brought to justice. On November 19, 1971 Sartzetakis was released to pressure from abroad, especially from France, from custody.
After the re-establishment of democracy Sartzetakis was taken in September 1974 as the appeal judges of the Court of Appeals in Athens back in the government service in 1981 and appointed as Chairman of the Court of Appeals in Nafplion. In October 1982, he was judge of the Supreme Court ( Arios Pagos ) in Athens.
On 29 March 1985 Sartzetakis was by the Greek Parliament on the recommendation of Prime Minister Andreas Papandreou ( PA.SO.K. ) with 180 of 300 votes elected Greek President and sworn in the following day. Sartzetakis itself was no party. On 5 May 1990, he was replaced by his own predecessor Konstantinos Karamanlis in the presidency.