Opposition parties spoke of a ‘cover-up’, ‘burial’ and ‘provocation’, while PASOK president Nikos Androulakis announced an emergency press conference.

According to the act issued by Supreme Court prosecutor Konstantinos Tzavellas, the evidence cited by the Athens Single-Member Misdemeanour Court does not constitute new evidence sufficient to justify retrieving the case file from the archive. As a result, the conclusions of the report by former deputy Supreme Court prosecutor Achilleas Zisis are not overturned.

The first to react was the president of PASOK and a victim of surveillance, Nikos Androulakis, who is due to hold an emergency press conference today, 27 April 2026, at 5pm at the party’s offices on Charilaou Trikoupi Street.

At the start of his meeting with the Cleaning Workers’ Federation, Androulakis spoke of a new attempt to ‘bury’ the case, stressing that ‘the dimension of espionage and the connection of state authorities with Predator are being buried once again’.

The PASOK president denounced the handling of the case by the judiciary, saying the Supreme Court had ‘remained silent’ for weeks without carrying out ‘even elementary investigative actions’. He also criticised the fact that the retired Israeli officer who ‘publicly blackmailed Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis’ was not called to testify.

‘This Greece does not deserve the Greek people and one person is responsible for all this: Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis’, he said.

SYRIZA: The wiretapping scandal is being covered up again

SYRIZA also strongly criticised the development, calling it ‘dangerous for both justice and democracy’. In its statement, the party said that ‘with the second choice of the Supreme Court leadership, the wiretapping scandal is once again being covered up’, while accusing the supreme judicial authority of ‘archiving the scandal with flawed arguments’.

SYRIZA also said the decision halts the investigation into offences that ‘concern the core of democracy’, such as espionage and the violation of the constitutional protection of communications.

‘However, let everyone know that the rule of law, democracy and justice are not archived’, the statement concluded.

KKE: ‘The responsibilities of the government and the prime minister himself should be revealed’

The Greek Communist Party (KKE) described the decision as ‘very convenient for the government’, saying the Supreme Court prosecutor’s choice to keep the case in the archive highlights ‘cover-up methods’.

According to the party, the latest developments and revelations, from the request by the Single-Member Misdemeanour Court for an investigation into the offence of espionage to the statements by the head of the Israeli company, require ‘the responsibilities of the government and the prime minister himself to be revealed’.

The KKE also referred to allegations of surveillance and wiretapping against the party itself, stressing that all relevant cases must be investigated ‘fully and in depth’.

Sakellaridis: ‘The judiciary is erecting a protective veil around the PM’s office’

The interim president of the New Left, Gabriel Sakellaridis, described the decision as ‘outrageous’ and a ‘provocation’.

In a post, he accused the Supreme Court prosecutor’s office of ‘pretending that nothing happened’, despite the decision of the Athens Single-Member Criminal Court, which, he said, showed links between the physical perpetrators and those who ordered the surveillance, as well as indications of a common centre between the National Intelligence Service (EYP) and Predator.

‘It is obvious that the judiciary is erecting a protective veil around the prime minister personally as well as his office’, Sakellaridis said, adding that ‘cover-up has now become synonymous with the Mitsotakis government’.

Tsipras: ‘Whatever is easily put into the archive is just as easily taken out’

Former prime minister Alexis Tsipras also commented on the issue, criticising the leadership of the judiciary.

‘The leadership of the Greek judiciary in recent years has always found a way to surprise us with its speed’, he said, especially, he added, ‘when the revelation of a parastatal mechanism that brutally violated the rule of law is imminent’.

Concluding his statement, Tsipras sent a message to ‘those concerned’: ‘Whatever is easily put into the archive is just as easily taken out of the archive.’

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