Anastasiades seeks €2m in damages from ‘defamatory’ journalist
Lawyers representing former President Nicos Anastasiadis have filed a €2,000,000 lawsuit against journalist and writer Makarios Drousiotis at the Nicosia district court accusing him of making “malicious, false, and defamatory claims” in his book “Mafia State” and “The Gang”.
Included in the suit is an article published on September 5, 2013.
A statement released on Thursday said that the lawsuit was filed by lawyers Giorgos Triantafyllidis and Theodoros Economou on behalf of the former president.
According to the statement, the lawsuit seeks “exemplary damages for defamation, in excess of €2,000,000, as well as a court order prohibiting Drousiotis from rewriting and republishing the controversial passages contained in his books and article.”
The statement adds that Anastasiades “also seeks any other remedy that the court may deem just”.