The government spokesman, Paul Marinakisgave answers to the incident to Syroswhere protesters prevented the landing of the cruise ship carrying Israeli tourists to the islandspeaking on the 90.1 Parapolitis Radio Station.
In particular, he stressed that “Anti -Semitism and any form of fascism and racism will not be tolerated in Greece. We are not going to allow racist behaviors and any necessary measure must be taken, so that in such cases, citizens are protected, no matter where they come from, what is their origin, what is their religion or whatever».
«I think it is outrageous what happened in Syros. There are no words to describe it. It is an incident that I have to say, representing the Greek government, that it is isolated and should the authorities do the impossible possible in any subsequent occasion not to happen again.
It is inconceivable to discuss it, but unfortunately there are some morbid minorities that confuse something. Another thing is the obviously permissible demonstration – protest, it is another thing to speak and protest and shout about the humanitarian crisis in Gaza, which the Greek government has been human and self -evident first. There is no reasonable man who is not moved, which is self -evident to want to stop what is happening with civilians, right?
And it is another thing to turn a democratic protest into an event that has fascist characteristics for me. Because when you actually turn against people because of their origin, because of their nationality, because of their religion, and in the way you do it, you create a status of fear – Because the fact that the master made the decision not to say not to land the passengers in Syros was the result of the fear created – Therefore, there are the authorities there, in any subsequent case, as provided by law, there is anti -racist law, there are emergencies, there are all that the law provides for them.
The authorities are therefore owed, whether the police are the case, whether it is the port or in cooperation to apply the law.
There is a clear provision in anti -racist law, which describes some acts when some people are turned by citizens because of the various characteristic or identity issues protected by law.
But certainly, once such a treaty was created, the authorities had to impose the order in every respect to be safe in every respect.
The next time the safety of passengers, citizens, anyone with anything else, security is above all weighed. Again, we protect every protest, every demonstration under the law. The law is clear. It is obviously not forbidden to demonstrate and it is again, both human and self -evident.
Authorities must enforce the law. If citizens need to move, go to a point where they will make their demonstration fine. If some who must fall under a provision of anti -racist law, be arrested, arrested. Police have the utmost support of society, the overwhelming majority of society. It does a terrible job – not to be misunderstood – in too many difficult cases and under very adverse conditions, too many times. There is law, there is a framework, it must be applied
Whether there was a question between Greece’s relations and Israel The government spokesman clarified that “there is no issue. It is logical to create a concern, because we are talking about citizens of a state. Beware of the very fine line between a demonstration and movement that turns against any man, no matter what his origin is, what his religion is. One, the first is a democratic move. The second is a move of absolute fascism. It is the other side of fascism. To turn against any person because he has a origin, a preference, a religion or whatever. “