The request is signed by all the members of SYRIZA in the Committee: Nikolaos Voutsis, Giorgos Katrougalos, Theofilos Xanthopoulos, Spyros Lappas and Pavlos Polakis.
With their letter, the deputies of SYRIZA and members of the Committee on Institutions and Transparency request from the President of the Parliament the immediate hearing of the commander of the EYP and the president of the Communications Privacy Assurance Authority (ADAE) regarding the surveillance cases.
The request is signed by all the members of SYRIZA in the Committee: Nikolaos Voutsis, Giorgos Katrougalos, Theofilos Xanthopoulos, Spyros Lappas and Pavlos Polakis.
In their request, the SYRIZA MPs emphasize that “these complaints do not only concern the president of PASOK-KINAL or his party, but they attack the core of democracy and freedoms in our country. The judiciary is already examining the case, following a petition filed by the president of PASOK, but the Commission must exercise its own competence in a matter of obvious institutional importance. If the president of a parliamentary party is not safe from surveillance, who can feel safe in the Greece of K. Mitsotakis?”
As they state, “this complaint comes in addition to other detailed complaints for which in the immediate past we had requested the convening of the Commission. Specifically, according to a detailed report by the authoritative newspaper “The Editors’ Newspaper”, the EYP monitors ordinary citizens and informs the prime minister himself about their movements.
According to the revelations of the Newspaper and the EYP signals published, the latter requests:
• The monitoring of citizens participating in rallies against measures to address the health crisis and the collection of personal information, occupation, mobile phone numbers, social media accounts and ideological background of citizens.
• The monitoring of a 12-year-old refugee boy from Syria, whose sketch was published in Le Monde newspaper, as well as the journalist and the lawyer who met him.
• The monitoring of a public official because he allegedly defends the labor and individual rights of immigrants.
• The monitoring of a lawyer who took on the defense of an immigrant”.
These, as the SYRIZA MPs note, are “disturbing and sad events”, which should also be investigated by the competent Committee of the Parliament.
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