Family’s lawyer to testify as witness in Thanasis Nicolaou case

Savvas Matsas, the lawyer of the family of conscript Thanasis Nicolaou, who was killed in 2005, is to withdraw from his role as a prosecutor in the trial of five people regarding an alleged coverup regarding the circumstances surrounding his death, so as to appear as a witness.

He announced his decision in Thursday’s hearing of the trial, with it having initially been planned that the day’s hearing would be used to hear objections to his role as a prosecutor, given the fact that he had...