An urgent preliminary examination was ordered by the head of the Prosecutor’s Office of Appeals of Thessaloniki, Nikos Kallides, after the report made by the Deputy Minister of Infrastructure and Transport Nikos Tachiaos about threats he received from a “major factor” of the Football Association of Thessaloniki (PAE) for incidents on the day of the inauguration of the Metro city. With the same order to the Thessaloniki First Instance Prosecutor’s Office, Mr. Kallides requests that the spontaneous procedure be implemented in case of incidents.

The Deputy Minister of Infrastructure and Transport earlier visited the senior prosecution officer and filed a report. “I received a phone call from a large PAE agent in Thessaloniki, where I was suddenly told that “look, thousands of people are gathered, they are preparing to spoil what you are preparing, they will break everything for you the day after tomorrow when Mitsotakis comes” and he asked me to I am conveying this to the prime minister”, said Mr. Tachiaos, adding that he also received a second message (s.s. link to an informative website) confirming the above.

“The government of Kyriakos Mitsotakis is neither threatened, nor blackmailed, nor does it negotiate with hooliganism, directed hooliganism. In Thessaloniki, this kind of approach is unacceptable. It is a city which in recent times has mourned its people precisely as victims of blind hooliganism, of the fandom that we all of course know that in too many cases are directed […] No one has the right to spoil the city’s big celebration. The day after tomorrow, Thessaloniki with the Metro celebrates, changes the page, escapes from monothematic discussion around the Metro and will not fall into the monothematic discussion around a fandom that does not interest many”added Mr. Tachiaos.

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