The President of Greece in 1985-1990, Christos Sartzetakis, died on Thursday at the age of 92, Proto Thema reported.

According to it, Sartzetakis, who had experienced serious health issues in recent years, was taken with pneumonia on December 1 to the Laiko hospital in Athens, and on December 3 he was transferred to intensive care with acute respiratory failure.

Sartzetakis was born on April 6, 1929 in Thessaloniki into the family of a gendarmerie officer. In 1950 he graduated from the Faculty of Law of the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, in 1955 he began his judicial career as a lawyer.

In 1963, while working as an investigator in Thessaloniki, he faced a case that made him famous throughout Greece.

On May 22, 1963, Grigoris Lambrakis, a member of parliament from the United Democratic Left Party, was killed in the city square after a rally by representatives of ultra-right organizations. Sartzetakis led the investigation, despite the political pressure he was subjected to, as there was evidence of involvement in the case by the police, government circles and the royal court. As a result of the investigation, which proved the involvement of the authorities in the murder of a popular opposition politician, Prime Minister Konstantinos Karamanlis resigned and left Greece.