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Stylianos Mpoutis
He becomes Head of the Prosecutor’s Office of First Instance of Thessaloniki in August 1963, where he immediately collaborates with the prosecutor Christos Sartzetakis on the charges he rapidly files against the leadership of the Northern Greece Police as perpetrators of the assassination of Grigoris Lambrakis (September 1963).
He is present at the identification of Pagratidis as perpetrator for the attack at the Orphanage and on the first night of the preliminary investigation by the Thessaloniki police, on December 7, 1963. The ongoing preliminary investigation of Pagratidis is assigned by the Deputy Chief of the Police, Nikolaos Panagopoulos, to prosecutor Nikolaos Athanasopoulos, likely due to Mpoutis' intense focus on the Lambrakis case, as just six days later, he submits to the Judicial Council a 110-page typed motion requesting the re-detention of "The Four" and their referral to the Court of Felonies. Together with the investigator Christos Sartzetakis, they are subjected to verbal war and heavy criticism from all sides involved in the case.
He dies at the age of 60 on July 17th 1965, leaving behind an untarnished name, an intact stature and a legacy of work dedicated to Justice as it ought to have been served, and not as it was ultimately rendered in the trial of the Lambrakis assassination.