Determined to apply the law to Unknown Soldier appears the government, which today will pass the crash test of parades which take place in a “strange” climate, due to the tensions over Tempi and OPEKEPE. Government officials have factored in the planning that has become the script for “activism”, although the assessment is that things will not get out of hand.
In the Syntagma, all eyes will be on the president of the Freedom of Navigation Zoe Konstantopoulouwhich has announced some activist action on the official platform, possibly with relatives of victims in Tempe or members of the “To the End” group that makes regular appearances on the Unknown Soldier. And in areas outside of Athens, it remains to be seen if there will be any reaction from farmers or breeders who are “on the fence” about the OPEKEPE case, but also because of the outbreak of smallpox.
Especially for Constitutionaccording to his cross-examination protothema.grthe will of the State is not to exhaust its strictness, but in case someone tries to interrupt the parade there will be an intervention of the Police forces.
From there, for the government, the real bet begins regarding the monument and its guarding. According to information, already Ministry of Defense has found the cleaning company for the site and in fact late on Sunday night, after Mrs. Konstantopoulou, Mr. Routsi and the other supporters had left, the crew showed up at Syntagma.
As for police planning, the minister Michalis Chrysochoidis is on the open line with him Nikos Dendias and makes it clear that there will be a guard, with priority given to the cenotaph, where a woman tried to stage a sit-in protest over the weekend, resulting in her being brought in.
“The law will be enforced. The Greek Police have a specific plan. No one will be exempt. You are very right in what you say. The presence of anyone there is not prohibited, but any gathering that goes beyond the purpose for which this sacred monument is there: rallies, the various so-called solidarists, who stand next to sick people to do their revolutionary gymnastics, actions that have nothing to do with the Sacred Monument of the Unknown Soldier, will not be permitted under any circumstances by the Greek Police. government spokesman Pavlos Marinakis meaningfully interpreted yesterday. Obviously there will be a balance exercise on the field as well, but after the parade it seems that the scene changes.
The Mitsotakis-Dendias coincidence
Notably, today at noon o Kyriakos Mitsotakis he will be in Thessaloniki for the military parade, although he is suffering from a virus, hence he did not go since yesterday afternoon as originally planned. On the platform of the officials, Mr. Mitsotakis will coincide with Nikos Dendias after Maximos-Pentagon’s “bagging” for the Unknown Soldierwhich of course was vented through of the conflict between the Minister of Defense and the mayor of Athens. Of course, Mr. Mitsotakis will also be at the office tomorrow Pentagonfor the presentation of the new face of the building by the hand of the sculptor Kostas Varotsou. A presence that seems to lead to…absence from the same event for sure Antonis Samaras and possibly his Costas Karamanlis who until yesterday was outside Athens, having visited during the weekend Vouliarates and Kleisoura, the villages of the Greek minority in Albania where his father Alekos fought in the epic of the 1940s.