Today’s statements by the Minister of Citizen Protection, Yiannis Oikonomou, are commented on by Thanasis Glavinas, press representative of PASOK-Movement for Change.

“The sad findings, which we heard today from the minister responsible for the events in New Philadelphia, are another admission of failure by the government“, he claims by way of introduction and adds: “We have not heard any assumption of political responsibility, which the government and the responsible minister have, whose job should have been to coordinate and prevent the actions of ELAS and not just to comment on the events, such as Mr. Economou did today, repeating declarations and good intentions to combat fan violence, which we had heard before even after the murder of Alkis Kampanos”.

“The “staff state” of New Democracy is proving incapable of implementing the policies that the same government announced a year and a half ago. Due to a lot of communication, the government has left society unprotected”, concludes Mr. Glavinas.