“It is unfortunate that political formations of the opposition, at every opportunity, attack the Greek police officer with complete zero-sum disposition,” said Deputy Minister of Civil Protection Lefteris Oikonomou, who, responding earlier to a topical question by MERA MP 25 K. Grigoriadis police violence and arbitrariness “, he said that” in the dramatic case in Perama, part of the opposition wanted to politicize the issue and present the police as an authoritarian, anti-democratic mechanism and the criminals as victims “. However, these approaches, said Mr. Economou, do not help democracy or human rights.
In particular, MEPA25 MP Kleon Grigoriadis, who referred to incidents of “police violence” and “arbitrariness”, to “injuries to citizens and members of Parliament”, called on the government to take measures to democratize the Security Forces, control the psychological the status of the people who staff them, and the real accountability for their actions. Mr. Grigoriadis also called on the government to inform “what it will do with the militarized groups – MAT, DIAS TEAM, ACTION – and with the staff of ELAS exclusively with graduates of schools of at least 2 years of real democratic education”. In this climate, Mr. Grigoriadis said that the people who killed the 18-year-old Roma in Perama, at best had been trained for 4 months and at worst 25 days.
In relation to what happened in Perama, the Deputy Minister of Citizen Protection assured that what was provided was done both at the level of judicial procedure and at the level of disciplinary. Mr. Oikonomou said that part of the opposition, including MERA25, “in this dramatic case, wanted to politicize the issue and present the police as an authoritarian, anti-democratic mechanism, and the criminals as victims.” However, these approaches, said Mr. Economou, do not help democracy or human rights.
“Greece is a mature European democracy. “Its legal framework and the functioning of the state guarantee the stability of the state and must guarantee the security of citizens, life and property, because democracy cannot function without security,” said the deputy finance minister, adding that the incident in Perama became an occasion for the further improvement of the operational functions and the structure of forces of the Immediate Action. The parameters of the incident, not only of Perama but also of others, led to decisions for more and more multi-level training of the police personnel who are on the streets day and night and are called more and more often to face persecutions and extreme behaviors of criminals, he said. Mr. Oikonomou and stressed that the priority of the Ministry of Citizen Protection is the continuous training of all police officers, with priority given to the executives serving in the DIAS Group and the other services of immediate intervention and first reaction. “What is required for the Police and the entire Ministry of Civil Protection is security for all, security everywhere”, said Lefteris Oikonomou and explained that the ministry will move strategically in the triptych of the digitization of business structures – interoperability, education and staff know-how, improving the legal and administrative framework, where needed. “It is unfortunate that political formations of the opposition, at every opportunity, attack the Greek police officer with complete zero-sumness, that they are exercising opposition with a look focused on previous decades, in the 50s and 60s,” said the Deputy Minister of Civil Protection. and added that crime has evolved, the challenges are different, and Greece is different and the democratic state is acquired. “The concept of justification, as understood by some circles of the Left, sanctifies the criminal, purifies the behavior of the minority and stonewalls the security structures of the state, the man and the woman policeman, looks forward to a social division, to polarization at every opportunity and ignores the facts of order, law and state stability in the country. We are working for a better police, for more security, for greater operational capability, even when there are failures, gaps, malfunctions in the action of everyday life “, said Lefteris Oikonomou and stressed that these will be corrected, will be reasons for greater formation, readiness and ability.
“The Greek policeman is not the criminal. His mission is to fight the criminal. “The way the vast majority of Civil Society treats ELAS gives courage, confidence and satisfaction to the police,” he said. serving the Constitution, the laws, the order, the collective security.
“We do not give you the Greek police. They are popular children, poor children, children of poor families who have made their choice and we are by their side. We do not consider them foreign to us. We consider them in the social body, we consider them to be a part of us, flesh of our flesh “, Kleon Grigoriadis answered and wondered” how the murder of the 18-year-old Roma was polarized, since the evidence is overwhelming “.
“The Center to which they must obey and would obey if the men of the DIAS Group were trained, orders them to stop the persecution. “If they had not violated their oath and obeyed the order of the Center, an 18-year-old man would not have died”, said the MP of MERA25 and commented that the police “threw 36 bullets in a stationary vehicle, which tried to claim that he injured them, it turned out “However, he did not injure them at all, they threw him from behind in a stationary vehicle, they did not throw him in the car tires”, said Mr. Grigoriadis and added that the Undersecretary did not say that the Minister of Civil Protection went to GADA that night to visit them. . “I ask you, Mr. Economou, you have been a minister for so long, have you ever been to GADA to see any leftist if he is in good health when he was beaten by MAT? Have you ever been to GADA to see an anarchist? Have you ever been to GADA to see any Communist Party MP who has been beaten by the MAT? You have not done it. You did it when it was in danger of being revealed that these people, due to lack of education, I want to believe, cold-bloodedly killed an 18-year-old “, said Mr. Grigoriadis and added that Mr. Economou did not say anything today and did not feel the need, as a politician chief, to apologize that the MAT beat the MP of MERA25 M. Apatzidis.
Responding to the incident in Perama, the Undersecretary of Civil Protection said that the judicial and disciplinary control is in progress and therefore at this stage no safe judgment can be made. “This is a tragic event, the examination of which requires an in-depth investigation of the facts, in combination with the sequence of actions of all those involved,” said Mr. Economou, adding that the Ombudsman, as a national Arbitration investigation mechanism, a criminal case has been filed by the Department of Crimes against Life and Personal Freedom and the case is under regular investigation.
Regarding the injury of the MP of MERA25, Mr. Economou said: “We condemn it and investigate it with due care and be absolutely sure that where there are responsibilities will be imposed, with due rigor.” Commenting on Mr. Grigoriadis’s reference to the need to democratize the Security Forces, Mr. Economou said that such a report leads to “a completely wrong perception of the alleged existence of a democratic deficit in the ranks of ELAS men and women” and added: ” As one of the political leaders of the Ministry of Civil Protection, and above all as the honorary leader of ELAS, allow me to state categorically my opposition and aversion to such a distorted and dangerous for social cohesion perception that some are trying to cultivate. . ELAS moves and acts strictly within the framework of the Constitution and the legal order of the Greek State. It is governed by discipline, structural competence and a framework of self-control, having effective accountability mechanisms for the limited deviant behaviors that are controlled and punished “.
He also called on those who leave tips for the democratic perception in the body of ELAS, not to forget that the services of ELAS were the ones who conducted all the investigations into the illegal actions and behaviors of the leadership and members of Golden Dawn, which led the pro-Nazi formation before of Greek justice. In this climate, Mr. Economou called on the members of Parliament not to reproduce hints about the democratic perception of ELAS: “I call on everyone and especially the members of the Greek Parliament not to reproduce hints about the democratic perception of the Greek Police Every day it carries out its mission with a high sense of responsibility, with absolute respect for the Constitution and the laws of the state and especially in this difficult period that we are going through, both in terms of external and internal threats. The police ensure the stability of democracy in the face of any threat. It is the minimum recognition that we all owe to the Greek police officers, who since its establishment in 1984 until today has paid a heavy blood tax, counting one hundred and sixty dead on duty and more than two thousand wounded, Greek and Greek police officers “.
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