The “hunt for immigrants” unleashes the crisis in Greece

While three people who illegally detained irregular migrants crossing from the Evros region into Greece were arrested in Greece, the Greek High Court Prosecutor’s Office asked the Alexandroupolis Prosecutor’s Office to launch an investigation into the racist act.

According to the Greek Police Service statement, the police took action following the video posted on social media showing that 13 irregular migrants from Syria and Pakistan were illegally held in a trailer tied to a vehicle. Police arrested the owner of a vehicle near Alexandroupoli and two people who assisted the owner of the vehicle in this action yesterday afternoon.

In the video, one person cursed at the immigrants and said: “I put together 25 pieces in the trailer. These will burn us. The whole mountain is full. They have sworn to burn us. Organize together, let’s collect them.” He is heard using the phrase.

COURT CALL FOR INVESTIGATION

According to the information of the Greek state television ERT, the prosecutor of the Supreme Court of Greece, Yorgos Adilinis, demanded that an investigation be launched for the crimes of use of violence, endangering human life and kidnapping related to the racist incident.

In his article addressed to the Alexandroupoli Prosecutor’s Office, Adinis stated that the narrator of the video also invited other people to racist actions and added: “The racist violent act in which a resident of Alexandroupoli piles refugees into a trailer like sardines is Worrying.” He used his statements. Adilinis, who wanted to reveal the causes of the fires that caused loss of life, material damage and natural disasters in the region, wanted to investigate whether an organized crime organization was behind these fires.

Greek Citizen Protection Minister Yannis İkonomu said in a statement on the social media platform X, formerly Twitter, “Greece is a rule of law with a strong democratic heritage and humanitarian tradition. Street laws cannot be tolerated in any way.” he made statements.

REACTION OF THE OPPORTUNITY TO THE GOVERNMENT

Nasos Iliopoulos, parliamentary spokesman for the main opposition party, Radical Left Alliance (SYRIZA), accused the government of not being able to adequately respond to the fires and criticized racist groups in the Evros region in his social media post. . Iliopulos argued that the malfunctioning of civil protection caused the death of 19 people due to a fire in the region.

Arguing that the state mechanism has collapsed in the Evros region, Iliopoulos said: “Far-right groups are persecuting immigrants and refugees producing conspiracy theories with the collusion of the government and the support of Greek Resolution Party MP Paris Papadakis”. he used his statements.

The Unity Movement Against Fascist Threat and Racism (KEERFA), which operates in Greece, criticized the government for tolerating racist groups over the incident in which irregular immigrants were detained in a trailer and called for anti-racist action in the capital. , Athens. , on Thursday, August 24.

A herdsman in Viotia and an irregular migrant in Kavacık (Lefkimi) in the Meriç region lost their lives in the fires that continued for five days in the country on 21 August. Yesterday, the bodies of 18 people, 2 of them children, were found in the Dadia forest area, in the Evros region. They are believed to belong to irregular immigrants who were trying to pass through Meriç to Greece. (AA)