Greek Justice Minister to instigate disciplinary action against book-banning judge.
Greek Justice Minister Sotiris Hatzigakis is said by sources close to him to be incensed at a judge’s decision seeking to force the withdrawal of Ersi Sotirolpoulou’s award-winning book, “Zigzag Through The Bitter Orange Trees” from the school library system.
The banning of the book risks becoming the central, tarnishing episode of Hatzigakis’ tenure at the ministry, and the Minister does not appear willing to take a passive position on the issue. “A judge cannot be allowed to politicize decisions in such fashion,” he said in a meeting with aides following the publication of the judge’s decision.
In a harshly-worded letter that Mr Hatzigakis is said to be preparing, the Minister is expected within a few days to ask the head of the judicial oversight body Dimitris Kiritsakis to open disciplinary hearings on the judge over the issue of the Sotiropoulou decision.
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