Christos Sartzetakis
| Christos Sartzetakis Χρήστος Σαρτζετάκης |
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| President of Greece | |
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In office 30 March 1985 – 4 May 1990 |
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| Prime Minister |
Andreas Papandreou Tzannis Tzannetakis Ioannis Grivas Xenophon Zolotas Konstantinos Mitsotakis |
| Preceded by | Ioannis Alevras (Acting) |
| Succeeded by | Konstantinos Karamanlis |
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| Born |
6 April 1929 Thessaloniki, Greece |
| Political party | Independent |
| Alma mater | University of Thessaloniki |
Christos Sartzetakis (Greek: Χρήστος Σαρτζετάκης; born 6 April 1929) is a Greek jurist and former supreme justice of the Court of Cassation, who served as the President of the Third Hellenic Republic from 1985 to 1990. He was born in Neapoli, Thessaloniki in 1929. His father, who was serving as a Gendarmerie officer in Thessaloniki - where he met his mother - was a Cretan, having been born in Kandanos, Chania, while his mother who was born in Sklithro, Florina, was a Greek Macedonian.
He entered the Law Faculty of the University of Thessaloniki in 1946, and received his degree in 1950, after which he practised law in Thessaloniki. In 1954 he received his license to practice law after successfully completing the bar examination. In November 1955, he was named Justice of the Peace. A year later, he became a magistrate of the Court of First Instance.
He was the unyielding prosecutor in the sensational case of the assassination of the left-wing member of Parliament (and ‘doctor of the poor’) Grigoris Lambrakis, committed on 22 May 1963 in Thessaloniki by right-wing extremists. Lambrakis had called for Greece to disarm and withdraw from NATO. Over half a million people attended his funeral. Despite obstruction of justice by his superiors, Sartzetakis doggedly pursued his investigation to the end. He succeeded in convicting the police officers involved in the murder; they were later rehabilitated by the Greek military junta of 1967-1974.
The circumstances of the Lambrakis investigation was the theme of the well-known 1966 novel Z by Vassilis Vassilikos, and Sartzetakis was portrayed by Jean-Louis Trintignant in the novel's 1969 film adaptation by Costas Gavras.
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