St. Kasselakis presented the four basic changes that SYRIZA considers necessary to be made in the Police, “in order for Greek men and women to regain real security”
“I have no doubt that the people will send a very big message in the European elections”, stressed Mr Stefanos Kasselakis from the Town Hall Square in Peristeri, in the second consecutive event held in the context of the presentation of the candidates of the primaries included in the Attica ballot. It is recalled that the first twenty were presented yesterday, while after tonight’s presentation, the triptych of these events regarding the candidates on the Attica ballot is completed with Friday’s event in the square of Nea Smyrni.
The president of SYRIZA PS noted that “we are not here only to obtain the negative, punitive vote of the people” which he estimated that there will be for the ND, “we are here with our proposals and with the renewal of SYRIZA, with the democratic process that we display, courageously to win the trust of the people”. He claimed that “there is a current out there”, “I see it, you see it and we have a chance for the good of the country for this current to collide with the empty ballot box and surprise us all positively”. “I have no doubt that on June 9 we will tear up,” he said at the closing of the event.
Mr. Kasselakis strongly criticized the government and underlined that “we don’t have time in Greece for more deaths”, to emphasize that “human life has value even if they cannot value it in the police, in the railway, in the National Social Security, then let’s get on with it.” The leader of the official opposition argued that the prime minister announced the “purported measures” to deal with bowling as a “communicational distraction” for the developments surrounding the femicide outside the A.T. St. Anargyron. He characterized these measures as “right-wing sour grapes”, while contrasting two SYRIZA proposals from the overall interventions he announced he would announce.
At the same time, Mr. Kasselakis presented the four basic changes that SYRIZA considers necessary to be made in the Police, “in order for the Greek woman and the Greek man to regain real security”.
In particular, Mr. Kasselakis thanked all the candidates and congratulated them “for putting themselves in front of the world’s crisis and entering the front line”. “You have a role to play both in SYRIZA and in society,” he said, stressing that social responsibility is at the heart of SYRIZA. He characterized the process of shaping the European ballot as unprecedented for our country, that is, the official opposition party giving the power to the citizens “to take SYRIZA into their own hands”.
Mr. Kasselakis commented that “the government was in a hurry to announce supposed measures for bowling. Hastily, stressfully, without even waiting for the proposals of the National Committee which she herself appointed”. He claimed he did it “for a communication distraction.” “Command Greenberg,” he commented, “killing women outside police stations? So what does Greenberg say to avoid it? Let’s talk about bowling, supposedly providing protection to the Greek kids. Let’s also send the prime minister – an escort of 20 cars that for Mitsotakis easily become taxis – to a school, to tell the children that he too, who grew up in the feathers of power, was bullied because they emptied his bag”. He said that in essence they announced “measures that they had already announced without them ever being implemented”. “Does advertising cost anything? No, it’s rubbish”, he continued, “like the public commitment given by the prime minister to the mother of the two high school children in Gavdos, who promised her remote education in front of the cameras and I went there, found her, and the government has done nothing”. He commented that “the ND calls this populism, not educating our children in critical areas is populism. Yes.”
He said the “so-called anti-bullying measures” are “right-wing sour grapes: expulsions, criminal charges, blaming parents, citizen complaints”. He asked “what century do these professional politicians live in”, “have they not opened a book to read about the hundreds of scientific studies on the subject, which show that punitive methods in these ages always have negative effects on psychological development, intensify reactivity and do they reduce children’s academic performance?’
Two points of the plan to deal with bowling
He noted that SYRIZA PS, through the respective Sector of the party and the corresponding think tank, will formulate “a complete, modern plan to deal with bullying”. However, he underlined two points of the plan: “First, a psychologist with a teaching hour in every school, just like the gymnast and the art teacher. Second, reparation instead of harsh punishment.” Because, he said, children learn to take responsibility at school, not to hate school. “This is the right progressive treatment of bowling,” he added.
The 4 changes for the Police
Mr. Kasselakis argued that “all this is done so that citizens forget that now when they go to the police, they risk being asked to call the police”. He added that “we have to realize that a girl tried to save her life and this institution betrayed her.” He noted that “we don’t have time in Greece for more deaths, human life has value and if they can’t give value to the police even on the railway, in you, then let them move on”.
In this context, he presented the changes “that are necessary to be made in the police, in order for the Greek woman and the Greek man to regain real security”:
- Changing the way the Police leadership is selected: By the Hellenic Parliament, with cross-party consensus. Make the police leadership accountable to the Greek citizens.
- Admission of all police officers to the Police through pan-Hellenic examinations and after completion of their studies at the highest school of police officers. An end to the recruitment of ‘Special Guards’ with only two months of training.
- Police training reform. Lifelong training and its expansion in new types of crimes, in matters of gender violence, bullying, protection of vulnerable social groups.
- Implementation of the ‘Community Policing’ System:
In other words, the police officer who serves in an area should serve for a long time in this neighborhood, to know its problems, to build a relationship of trust with the citizens of the place where he serves”.
Commenting that the government is talking about a lifestyle policy and a lack of proposals, stressing that “so, they will hear from us clear proposals for everything – as they have seen now about security” and “they will be proposals from experts, not from politicians, modern proposals, European, not from the cobwebbed drawers of the right, proposals that solve the problems, not that cover them up”.
The president of SYRIZA PS closed his initial intervention by talking about “the big cover-up we see, the big cover-up, the cover-up of the crime of Tempe”. He noted that he would repeat the questions “until the prime minister is forced to answer. Specifically, he addressed the following questions to him: “Did he or did he not know about the match before it happened?” Who has the power to order batch and have it done at the same time? Did he or did he not know about the editing on the same night of the crime? Who has the power to order the editing of the conversations and to do it at the same time?” He added that “because the prime minister was so confident on March 22 last year that the material on the commercial train was not flammable,” “I ask him: can he still say that today a year later, with confidence?” To tell us that what he said last year is true. He said it to the Greek people before the elections last year, I challenge him to say it now.”
Then the press representative of the party, Voula Kehagia, presented the next 25 candidates:
- Anastopoulos Panagiotis (retired O.A., former international basketball referee)
- Gounaris Yiannis (lawyer)
- Dimitrelis Dimitris (nurse)
- Zaglaris Ioannis (private employee
- Christina Zaharopoulou (bank employee)
- Dimitris Kyriakopoulos (composer)
- Kotoula Kalliopi – Willy (screenwriter & mental health nurse)
- Mavros Theofilos (businessman)
- Bay Martha (social worker)
- Binetzis Demosthenis (political scientist)
- Panagiotou Lambros (journalist)
- Pantazidis Augustos (business consultant)
- Haritou Lina-Stavroula (clothing designer)
- Pefanis Robert (professor of communication-executive of an educational organization)
- Piperidis Zacharias (political scientist)
- Pneumatikos Nikos (professor at the University of Western Attica)
- Prodromitis Dimitrios (lawyer – theologian)
- Anastasia Soaps (tax officer)
- Sidera Eva (private employee)
- Spanea Reggina-Angelina (economist – SAAEK adult trainer)
- Stofilas Ilias (poet-candidate Ph.D. in Philology, EKPA)
- Dimitris Panopoulos (journalist)
- Bekatorou Sofia (psychologist, Olympic sailing champion)
- Constantara Dimitra (civil servant)
- Zarra Mallous Dimitra (flight attendant)
Source: Skai
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