Archive note: This text comes from the old archive of Nomika Epilekta and is preserved with care for historical and informational reading.

After approximately nine years, the Athens Administrative Court of First Instance, by its final decision no. 1881/2011 (which may still be overturned by the court of appeal), partially upheld the action brought by the family of Alexandra V. (consisting of her parents and her brother), who was left helpless to die poisoned in her cell, in the Korydallos judicial prison, where she had been remanded in custody (to be "corrected") under the responsibility of the competent state organs.

The administrative court held that the prison officers (guards) serving in the women's prison of Korydallos, and therefore the state, whose organs those employees were, were liable for the drug-related death of the young remand prisoner, only 22 years old, a multilingual student with excellent performance and distinctions in her studies and in sport, because they were negligent in the performance of their duties. The prison officers (women in this case) had the official duty to prevent the entry into the prison of narcotic substances, which were used by all three drug-dependent women (ill persons) who died locked up and unaided in a horrible death, one of whom was Alexandra.

Specifically, the death of A. V. occurred on 31.12.2002, as the new year was dawning, together with two other young women, aged 19 and 41, all locked together in the same death cell, because of the use of narcotic substances, whose trafficking takes place unhindered inside prisons, with the knowledge of the competent authorities. According to a sworn statement by a prison officer, given in the investigation into the deaths of the three women, drug trafficking inside prisons contributes to the "calm" of detainees and to the quiet of the "correctional institutions".

On the occasion of the death of the young women, which was confirmed by the decision of the Athens Administrative Court of First Instance, and also because of other similar incidents, the non-governmental organization "Citizens' Union for Human Rights" proceeded, during 2010, through its president, to named sworn complaints and delivered specific documentary evidence to the Prosecutor's Office of the Piraeus Court of First Instance, so that the state mechanism would move in the proper direction of prosecuting drug traffickers and leave drug-dependent persons in peace so that they may be treated.

It should be noted that the full strictness of the state is exhausted not against the merchants of death and against oath-breaking state employees who become responsible for such incidents, but against ill, mainly young, persons who are annihilated by many months of remand custody (which is always extended), by continuous prosecutions and by sentences of inhuman imprisonment, usually life imprisonment. Recent, moreover, is the case of the rejection of an application by a remand prisoner who had recently given birth to be released together with her newborn, which was rejected, by majority, by decision of the Athens Council of Misdemeanors (Nomika Epilekta: "the remand detention of a young mother is maintained"), with the result that this young woman remained in prison, in violation of the presumption of innocence and also of the principles of humanity and civilization, which do not receive particular respect and appreciation in our country.

Regarding the above decision of the Athens Administrative Court of First Instance, an extensive note will follow, with reference to the corresponding judgment of the Athens Multi-Member Court of First Instance, which valued the life of the same young woman at the amount of EUR 20,000!