Remember when we were saying that at the end, lenders will grab also Acropolis? OK, we are not so far yet, but… apparently on the right direction. The tomb of one of the most famous Greek politicians Eleftherios Venizelos, the “maker of modern Greece” has been transferred to the new Privatization Fund allegedly in order to be able to be properly ‘utilized’ – see sold.
Finance Minister Euclid Tsakalotos passed a legislation amendment on Thursday according to which all properties belonging to Greek Tourism Organization (GTO/EOT) will be transferred to the new Privatization super Fund that will sale them to interested investors.
Greek media report that one of the transferred EOT properties is also the Tombs of Venizelos family near Akrotiti in Chania on the island of Crete.
The procedure to transfer ownership of the Tombs from EOT to Chania Municipality started in 2011, however it has not been concluded by now.
Chania mayor Tasos Vamvoukas told flashnews.gr that the tombs belong to Municipality and they cannot be “a commodity for trade.”
He said that there have are 5 cadastral extracts that transferred the historic monument to Chania municipality, while only one transfer segment is still pending. “Perhaps this pending piece delayed due to bureaucratic procedures was transferred to Privatization Fund”, the mayor said and warned that “the municipality will not allow the transfer to happen.”
Eleftherios Venizelos (1864-1936) was an eminent Greek leader of the Greek national liberation movement and a charismatic statesman of the early 20th century remembered for his promotion of liberal-democratic policies. He was elected several times as Prime Minister of Greece. Venizelos had such profound influence on the internal and external affairs of Greece that he is credited with being “the maker of modern Greece”, and is still widely known as the “Ethnarch”, the “Governor”.
Director General “Eleftherios. Venizelos” Foundation, Nicholas Papadakis, stressed that “The graves of Venizelos family are inextricably linked to the historical memory and the local community and any development that would alter the historical memory will not be accepted, as we consider unthinkable and unacceptable even the slightest discussion on the possible exploitation of the property in absentia of the local community and its institutional representatives.”
Escaped from the transfer to Privatization Fund the “swimming pool” of Xenia Hotel and the Church of Agioi Anargyroi as the transfer to Chania Municipality has been concluded.
Venizelos Tombs, the graves of Eleftherios Venizelos and his son Sofoklis Venizelos, who also served three times as Prime Minister of Greece, are situated in a location of the hill of Prophet Elias, in Akrotiri peninsula, just 5 km east from the city of Chania, Crete.
“Both Venizelos graves, next to each other, are in a beautiful park created with gardens, paved paths, stairs, terraces and benches under the shade of pine trees, but what gives awful beauty to this place, are the panoramic views in the sea area, the city of Chania and the whole region,” local Chania Tourism website writes.
A good question is: what would the investors possibly do with the Tombs? Charge €15 entrance fee to tourists?
PS what’s next? Acropolis? Ι do hope Acropolis doe snot belong to EOT and that all ministries involved have secured the ownership in time….
Perhaps they will create a theme park out of the tombs. Up next, neon signs and commercials on the facade of the Acropolis. Greece is the blueprint for a neoliberal takeover of a continent. Cash will be banned (see banning of 500 Euro note and forbidding cash transactions over 500 Euro).
This is absolutely barbaric and disgusting.
Maybe they can sell Kazantzakis’ tomb as well. They can change the inscription to: I hope for nothing. I fear the EU. I cost €50
LOL I have to steal this!
When I first saw the article title, I had the vague hope that the fake Venizelos was being privatised — maybe along with Jeffrey Papandreou. I was shocked that one of the few Greek politicians with any honour is being humiliated by crooks without honour or achievement. This is a very very bad era in European history: future generations will study the crimes and fail to comprehend what was wrong with these people.
We in the USSR had the joke that when you try communism in desert, you will run out of the sand. This is not the end, this is the beginning. I don,t know how much heritage costs but I know that in case of Acropolis goes on sale, the every last cent will go to help the refugees. Help means to bring as much as possible of them to Greece.
What do you care? Russia closed its borders, so what? Or are you one of these Russian-German-ghetto separatist-shit-heads that invaded EU, still don’t integrate and eat away welfare South-Europe needs much better? Cheap booze from the discounter shop and then hammering your retarded Slavic Nazi-alphabet into the blood-phone, better ask Putin if he pays more for the Parthenon than Suckerbourgh, 1000 billion?
I think our friend Yuri was one of these obsequious, bootlicking lickspittle when the Commies were in power, falling over himself in his efforts to be the first to brownnose the local Commissar. Now, that’s he’s found neoliberal religion, nothing much as changed except the are he kisses. Today, he’s busy groveling to is new masters and fawning over his new religion hoping they will reward him by letting him lick the sole of their shoes with his tongue. In either case, he really nothing more than a toady and a flunky with something like a grade school education. Onwards there Yuri Sycophantovich Minionov – brown nosing awaits!
That’s “the arses he kisses” by the way. Autocorrect…