Continuation of the issue of the two policemen in Kos who closed a pothole in the middle of the road and found themselves facing a jury administrative examination is given by the regional governor of South Aegean Giorgos Hatzimarkos, who in his post implies that the incident was staged and publicizes the active contract maintenance that the District has with a contractor.

The post of Mr. Hatzimarkos:

“There are no A’ and B’ class workers and everyone deserves our respect. And of course our employees also fall under this fundamental principle. Who weren’t hired as a punching bag or punching bag. Our partners, therefore, would be accountable if they had been indifferent or had not done the slightest thing about the current issue, the controversial pothole in the road network of Kos.

With a contract that provides and clearly describes prevention and treatment, they made sure that they have a continuous possibility to intervene in the issues of the road network.

So today I am presenting the active contract with a technical company through which our partners did their work with completeness also in Kos, where we had the incident with the Policeman who intervened in the road network that is now making the rounds on the internet.

This particular contract is in force, it is the subject of study and work by our own public officials and their defense by me is not to avoid anything, after all I willingly assume my responsibility, but to describe publicly that while the goal of all the attacks are us, the political figures I mean, the legal consequences are borne by our partners, because that is what our legislation provides. Through this contract, our partners, “now known for their incompetence”, were able to intervene on the same day they received information from the Police, and close the pit in question with asphalt. Is the contract working perfectly? The answer is no and for this reason, again these “incompetent” partners of ours, have initiated the compliance process with the contractor, a process that can lead to its development and his dismissal. Everything that our legislation, which is the only operating framework, stipulates has been done.

So if the Policeman who intervened in the road network without taking any, even elementary, means of road safety and marking as he was supposed to and as it appears from the video they gave to the traffic, he himself became a victim or caused an accident, in the dock of the accused our collaborators public officials would be found.

Now how did it occur to me that in order to act as a guardian in matters of road safety you must also have a culture of road safety, well that is inexplicable.

Now that the internet is on fire, even the most unsuspecting understand what my partners meant when they told me not to make the post that drew the ire of the perpetually angry online community. But that would be submission to the threat and surrender to the appetites of this insatiable cannibalism.

I knew very well what I would “pull” on the internet but I don’t intend to live being blackmailed. As I do not allow myself to leave defenseless colleagues who do their work with responsibility and seriousness, and with respect to other public officials.

PS: Let us urban dwellers forgive us because as country folk we have poorer images and are not used to the coincidence of a pothole, a shovel, a patrol car, a construction cart, a full concrete mixer and a camera coming together by chance.”