By Gifts Antoniou

The need to clarify the responsibilities around the responsibility for the proper functioning of space at monument to the unknown soldier They refer to government sources in the follow of yesterday’s post Prime Minister, Kyriakou Mitsotakisand the reactions caused.

On the part of the government, it becomes clear that his monument Unknown And the surroundings should work in the way that is appropriate to pay prices for the fallen homeland. The day after the completion of Panos Rucci’s protest, of the critical voices heard of the image around the monument and in order to prevent the possibility of being converted into a permanent protest, the legislative intervention was decided.

The prime minister announced legislation next week. “The government has decided to unravel the tangle of the functions on the maintenance and maintenance of this unique Athens landmark. With legislation, therefore, next week, he entrusts the sole responsibility for the protection and proper operation of the unknown soldier where he belongs: to the Ministry of National Defense“He underlined. This reference to ‘Exclusive responsibility’ to Ministry of Defense It was the reason for reactions from the opposition, as it was interpreted as a proclamation of the activation of military forces to guard the monument. Opposition parties rushed to denounce such a possibility, stressing that their jurisdiction Armed forces It is the protection of the country from external enemies.

On the government’s side, they clarified that the Ministry of Defense will be assigned the maintenanceprotection and cleanliness of the monument, while The Ministry of Citizen Protection and Police will continue to have responsibility for the class measures.

The prime minister in his Sunday message referred to his protest Panos Rucciwhich took place in front of the monument of the unknown soldier. “But now, a reasonable question is raised: a historical monument like its Unknown become a field of events irrelevant to his mission? My answer is no. Much more, when all citizens can be freely expressed in thousands of other places with gatherings or demonstrations“, He said.

In the wake of criticisms that had been formulated about the image that prevailed in the area in the past few days with tents, banners, placards and concentrated, government sources had referred to thoughts of some kind of intervention in order to enter a class.

After yesterday’s announcements, Sources of the Maximus Grand They reported that at the moment the Responsibilities for the Monument of the Unknown Soldier is. Responsible for cleaning is the The Municipality of Athens, at the request of the Guardian, is responsible for the classroom, and the Presidential Guard is also responsible for the classroom.. The same sources point out that this segmentation often causes malfunctions due to disagreement or even dismissal of responsibility with the invocation of infertility. The purpose of the legislative intervention, they add, is to resolve these issues and to preserve the operation of the site as a monument to pay back in memory of the fallen. Indeed, the same sources leave spikes on the situation against the Municipality of Athens, which is responsible for cleanliness.

At this wavelength, the Vice -President of the Government Kostis Hatzidakis In yesterday’s post he asked the question: ‘Are the monuments, like that of the unknown soldier, a place for all kinds of protest? The answer to us is clear and it is no! The monument of the unknown soldier was created to honor the memory of all our heroes who were sacrificed for our homeland and freedom. And not to accommodate all sorts of protests” And added: ‘Anyone who wants to complain in the center of the city has the rest of the center of the capital to do so, based on the forecasts of the Constitution and the Laws, as well as the rest of the Syntagma Square! Should protests be well organized on the monument of the unknown soldier?“