Specifically, as the court documents explain:

“According to No. F.351/103/310959 Decree of the Minister of National Defense, for the period when shots are not fired, within the shooting range, security measures, prohibitions and restrictions provided for by the relevant orders for all military units and conveniences. (…) Along the perimeter , in the approach passages, orders prescribed for houses, signs and markings are placed, warning of the danger of people approaching the area. After firing, units are required to make the firing range “Free”. to proceed with the destruction of identified unexploded ordnance, after the adoption of all the foreseen security measures in the area of ​​their location, before their destruction. It is also stipulated that each Unit firing a fire is responsible for the detection, marking and subsequent destruction of all unexploded ordnance immediately after the end of the firing exercise, while in paragraph 10, paragraph a of the Annex to Regulation 2-20/2010, which repealed Order 2-20/1989, expressly stipulating that prior to carrying out firing, a visual inspection of the firing site and especially the target area should be carried out to detect any impervious surface ammunition from past training activities.

However, according to Mr. Golemis, after the end of the exercises at the training ground in question, he was handed over by the army team “cleanly”, but control, as it turned out, was violated.

“Even if we assume that the unit of the 10th SP conducted an inspection of the shooting range, then this inspection can only be considered completely defective, and this is because, on the one hand, an unexploded fragmentation grenade was found, which caused the death of the rancher, on the other On the other hand, no other scattered metal pieces of ammunition were found at the scene. It should be noted that there are no markings along the perimeter of the shooting range to warn anyone who enters it, both of the boundaries and of potential dangers. Of course, it follows from logic and common experience that there can be no danger in a clean shooting range. That is, even assuming the presence of markings warning that the area in question is a training ground, no one, no matter how careful he was, could have guessed that there was a loose live grenade at the training ground when it was checked and handed over. over “FREE”. is commonly referred to in a lawsuit.

Mr. Golemis, in his statements to kathimerini.gr, stated in this regard:

“My superiors consider this a typical case of ill-timed justice, if not to use a more negative expression. A man got lost while walking along a country road with his herd in a pasture. The tragic accident occurred on January 6, 2020. Today, three years after the tragic death of a livestock breeder from an active and unprotected explosive device on a wider unguarded area of ​​several acres of the Melenikitsiou Serres farm, which is used as a shooting range and was allegedly delivered by the Greek army as “FREE” after its use, I was informed that only a few days ago a main investigation was scheduled and no specific individuals have been charged yet. We believe that this is a typical miscarriage of justice in such a serious case, for which the Greek army bears the obvious and unprecedented responsibility. Procedures must be carried out quickly, and those responsible must be held accountable.”