A new letter to the Attorney General, George Savvides, has been sent by Christos Triantafyllides, counsel to Anna Aristotelous, voicing strong objection, on behalf of his client, to the decision to keep the case under police investigation.
According to the letter, the involvement of the Assistant Chief of Police and other members of the Force “removes from the process the possibility of an objective and, subjectively, independent judgment,” and “leads to contamination of the investigative procedures.”
Calls for independence and use of criminal investigators
Triantafyllides warns that the Attorney General’s decision “inevitably leads to at least a lack of objective independence regarding the decisions to be taken by the Legal Service” and may also affect any potential court proceedings “in the extreme hypothetical case that such proceedings are decided upon, under Articles 113 and 114 of the Constitution.” He argues that both investigative authorities and the Legal Service must remain above any suspicion of bias, since “public trust in Justice is the citizen’s last bulwark and must be safeguarded.”
Criticism of the Legal Service’s 10 October statement
The lawyer adds that the Legal Service’s public announcement on 10 October 2025 “does nothing to reverse this very worrying situation” and, on the contrary, “intensifies concern.” Triantafyllides concludes that his client “reserves all her legal rights,” noting that, following publication of the previous letter on 6 October, “trust in the Legal Service cannot be taken for granted.”
The letter was also copied to the President of the Republic, Nikos Christodoulides, and to the Minister of Justice and Public Order, Marios Hartsiotis.