The president of the Greek Voice of Logic party condemns the seizure of a police car by Roma after an attack on police officers in Chalandri and wonders how to fight crime in a country when Roma camps “taboo” for the police.
Aphrodite Latinopoulou's statement:
“Once upon a time, the leftist government of Greece (SYRIZA) said: “If a thief enters your house, pretend you are sleeping.” Today, the center-right, supposedly right-wing government of New Democracy orders police officers assigned to carry out checks in Roma camps: “check from afar”!
So said one of the trade unionists of the Greek police, who, speaking on a television program, implicitly but clearly made it clear that, by… an order from above, there is a “taboo” on inspections in relation to Gypsy camps. He admitted that when the police receive an order to conduct a check in a Gypsy camp, as happened recently, they do not come close, but… assess the situation from afar.
In this case, when the police were informed about a disturbance in the gypsy camp, the two police officers who arrived at Sarandaporu Street acted on their own and came so close to the place, he added. The consequence of this “initiatives” “What happened was that the gypsies threw stones and sticks at them, as a result of which the uniformed police ran away in different directions to escape.”
As if that wasn't enough, they also took their police car.
I wonder how Mr. Chrysochoidis is going to fight crime and lawlessness when the police, who are called even for disturbing the peace, are not protected by anything, risk their lives for a meager salary and, in order to do good, show… personal initiative in the service.
Just like the leader of the police team who arrived at the scene to help two of his colleagues who, having received injuries, returned the police car back.
According to the editorial sources, the order banning inspections of Roma camps was issued shortly before the elections to the European Parliament. Thus, the ruling party settled accounts with the Gypsy barons, receiving carte blanche to ban camp inspections. Thus, criminals living in gypsy camps received indulgence for their criminal activities.
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