“Is it excessive to say that the names had to be said to the police? Is this an attack? ” Asked by the Deputy Minister under the Prime Minister and a government spokesman, Paul Marinakis Commenting on opposition party announcements about the government’s attitude towards what the Maria Karystianou On a television station, that she was threatened with her life. He even asked if “it is excessive to say that the names were to be said to the police when the names were not said by the police? Is this an attack? No one questioned what they said. Obviously we question any link with the prime minister. It does not stand in any sense, ”Mr Marinakis stressed in the context of the processing of the bill to enhance publicity and transparency in the print and electronic press.
It was preceded by SYRIZA’s rapporteur, Popi Tsapanidou, according to which Mr Marinakis had shown a nuisance about the journalist (interviewed by Ms. Karystianou), did her job, and left for the timeframe: Do you want this? Because that’s what you seem to want. And this is said, you know, censorship [. . .] And unfortunately it seems you like it, Ms Tsapanidou said.
In response, Mr. Marinakis said that the first thing we would demand, if someone told us that he intends to kill our children, “to protect ourselves, our children, because no one has questioned the complaint, I said that I have every reason to believe that they are true. And rather, a painful mother, which I hastened to say many times, so as not to have your cutter tactics, the first thing you say, is “who did that, who did you meet”. First, so that justice can do its job, which has already begun to happen. [. . .] And secondly, in order for a human being, whether it is the prime minister of the country or any other citizen who sounds, even in this way, something so heavy, he can defend himself. I think that every democratic citizen, these obvious, accepts them. Unless you believe that the police can investigate something, from a complaint, which is not accompanied by the names of the people who, in any case, knew the complainant, but also of the third party who came and said what he said. No one questioned what they said. Obviously we question any link with the prime minister. It does not stand in any sense, ”said Marinakis.
“But let’s accept that someone came and said he said. We do not dispute what they say. Is it excessive to say that the names were to be said to the police, which according to police were not said? Is this an attack? ” Mr. Marinakis said to Ms. Tsapanidou.
Concerning what the MPs said about “attacking a journalist”, she called on her to see the interview again: “The very logical born of such a serious complaint, which is transmitted to the air of a large channel, when someone comes and says,” Did you give this man to the police? ” “There is no issue of attacking a journalist,” said Marinakis.
In her speech on the issue of the name of the perpetrators, Ms Tsapanidou “This is the police job. [. . .] It is not your job to imply, saying “I honor the people who lost their children but”, because when you put “but”, you have canceled everything else. As a government, you have to ask for this process to get to the end, to find these people, to get the condemnation they deserve and to close the story by justifying these people. “
Finally, in a report by Ms Tsapanidou about the “Truth Group”, Mr Marinakis said: “Obviously I don’t forget it. The “Truth Groups” must be created even more to remind all of what we are saying today in the House and you do what you forget. And, after all, I honor her with my presence on Thursday, which closes for 13 years of operation, so that we can give people impetus, to highlight the contradictions of parties such as those of the opposition. “