Seven senior officers in the Greek Police will immediately be removed from their positions following the serious incidents between soccer hooligans in Nea Philadelphia on Monday, in which one person was killed, Citizen Protection Minister Giannis Oikonomou announced on Tuesday.
Flowers, candles, scarves, cans of beer laid in memory of 29-year-old Michalis K. who was stabbed to death outside the AEK Football Club Arena in the Athenian suburb of Nea Philadelphia.
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— Daphne Tolis (@daphnetoli) August 8, 2023
Another ten people were injured, among them a 13-year-old girl and a 17-year-old boy.
Police under fire
Police are also being criticized for not stopping the brawl sooner, even though it was obvious that the fans of both sides were up to no good when they started converging at the stadium after the two teams finished practicing.
The match AEK-Dinamo Zagreb originally scheduled for Tuesday evening has been canceled.
Opposition parties demand the resignation of the Citizen Protection Minister, who was appointed to this post last month.
However, in a country like Greece, politicians’ resignation is a rarity and they always are content to push any responsibility away from them.
If Minister Oikonomou is the political leadership of the Greek Police, doesn’t he have any responsibility about the Police’s “exemplary incompetence”?
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“exemplary incompetence”? Don’t be naive. They did very well. Unfortunately according to a highly unholy agenda.
This is not about soccer or sports at all. This is uprising fascism. This is wanted, long time prayed for by some perverts who now came to power. Unprecedented car accidents, dead journalists, propagandist tv…
Proletarians of all countries, unite!
…but who wants to admit to be proletarian anymore?
This tragic incident as well as the examples of how fires are handled and the horrible train accident show that incompetence, carelessness, indifference as well as corruption go rampant through the Greek institutions. That is not typical for only Greece; it happens in the whole Balkans. In Western Europe as well, albeit on a smaller scale and accountability is much stronger. The underlying problems are nepotism, clientelism, downright corruption and the fact that people can act without impunity. A complete overhaul of the institutions is required. Easier said than done when you know that the institutions and their corrupt members protect themselves. It is sad to see that a country that gave the world democracy and great thinkers such as Plato and Socrates, has strayed so far from that.