Complaint of an attack they received by two rascans made her monks Monastery Dump Mount Athoslate Thursday afternoon (22.05.2025).
According to a statement published on Facebook by the Holy Monastery of Esfigmenos on Mount Athos:
“Today, May 22, 2025 at 20:00 in the afternoon, and while three members of the Brotherhood of the Holy Monastery of Esfigmenou cleaned a flowerbed near the occupation of the monastery’s delegation in Karyes, in the context of the annual decentism for their imminent feast. unknown elements.
The attacked individuals came out of the occupied building of our monastery and while wearing a Rasa, they do not belong to Mount Athos and the Eastern Orthodox Church. One of them injured one of the members of the sinking of the Esfigmenos Monastery, hitting him with an object in his head and punches. He also propelled and threatened to threaten two other fathers, while throwing dirty waters.
An ambulance was called which received the injured person hospitalized at the Mount Athos Health Center and was informed by the Kares Police Department.
The Brotherhood of Esfigmenos Monastery once again denounces the indifference of the Greek government thanks to which the occupation, both in the monastery and the delegation in Karyes, is perpetuated, resulting in the physical integrity of its members … “.
“… The imposition of law and the observance of the security and legality of Mount Athos that are in the state’s sole jurisdiction proves to be non -existent.
We ask the obvious:
the protection of our lives,
the dignity of living,
The protection of our religious freedom!
Mercy!
From the Holy Monastery, “the announcement concludes.