“The day before yesterday some individuals vandalized various locations in Athens,” Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis said while addressing parliament on Thursday, according to ANA.
“They also vandalized the monument for our fellow citizens that lost their lives in Marfin [Bank]. In fact, they removed from the simple plaque the coat of arms of the Hellenic Republic. Words are unnecessary, not because some insist on hating the organized state but because they hate their own fellow citizens and the memory of those killed. In other words, they hate society itself and provocatively disregard the rules that govern its organization. Let us not mince words. This practice of blind violence, indiscriminate animosity, and uncontrolled destruction is called fascism. Yet such phenomena are manifested every so often in the name of the democratic right to demonstrate,” he said, speaking during the debate on the public gatherings and protests bill.
“This bill comes to protect the citizens’ freedom of public expression, to protect it from both state authoritarianism and from the threat that this right will be usurped by those who oppose normalcy,” the prime minister said.
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