In May of that year, I secured a one-week trip to the island of KOS in Geecko. I took the KV station with me to give the DX-men band points or possibly a new ground. With the permission of the hotel management, I installed it G5RV antenna.
After three days at 1 am, my wife and I were woken up by five plainclothes policemen and a lawyer. The wife suffers from Alzheimer's disease and has had 3 bypasses. I was charged because I used radio communication without a Greek license. The second charge was that I could monitor "other" frequencies with my TRCV FT-890AT! My objection that I broadcast legally based on CEPT terms was rejected!! The hotel manager printed out the CEPT list, which is available on the DARC website, and gave it to the legal representative. This document was ignored, crumpled and thrown in the trash!! My TRCV was confiscated along with the power supply, also the headphones with a note that they will be checked by a professional. They also wanted to secure my laptop, which I was protecting, since the laptop had nothing to do with the TRCV, which is supposed to be "checked". They also took our mobile phones, cameras and diary.
They handcuffed us and took us to the police station. The handcuffs were pulled so hard that it cut my hands, which were bleeding. I was taken to the hospital, where my wounds were treated. Due to the lack of a prison cell, they wanted to put me in the detention center, but the doctor in charge refused. So I spent 4 hours at the police station sitting on a chair. My efforts to visit my disoriented wife were denied on the grounds that she was in a locked hotel guard room. After a long discussion, I was escorted under the supervision of two policemen to the hotel, where I treated and dressed my wife. My personal care for her incl. I was refused bathing. They took me to the police again, where a "protocol" was already being created. Then we were brought to the courthouse. It was 11 in the morning. I was photographed in the courtyard and my fingerprints were taken. Then we waited until 4 p.m. under the supervision of the police, then I was introduced to a lawyer, who explained to me in two minutes what I was accused of: broadcasting without a permit, having a radio with frequencies other than those intended for radio amateur operation/!/ and for preventing the release of my laptop!
The discussion was scheduled for the next day at 12:00. I had to wait until 16.00 before the judge and the lawyer came.
The judge told me that he did not have an interpreter and adjourned the trial to the next day at 12:00. When I objected that we had to fly home the next day, he told me: that's your problem and he was done! The next day I called the German Embassy in Athens, who secured a German-speaking lawyer for me on the island of KOS. We met an hour before the treatise. My luck was that he was sometimes interested in amateur radio. I handed him all the documents that the hotel management kindly printed for us:
CEPT conditions in DARC, also printed in Greek! The proceedings were very busy, the lawyer objected that he wanted to turn to the European Court. The judge adjourned the proceedings, allowed me to return to Germany and decided that my lawyer could represent me at the next hearing without my presence. Me and my XYL had no food for 16 hours! We were not offered anything. I didn't sleep for 34 hours!
All this was the result of an anonymous tip that I was working without permission and that I was listening to other broadcasts. The prosecution invoked the 1929 Act!! I was sentenced to 5 months in prison with a three-year suspended sentence for refusing to hand over my laptop and for attempting to deface it.
Translated from English by Juraj - OM4JD