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KIS ANNOUNCEMENT FOR THE ANTISEMITIC GRAFFITI AT THE JEWISH CEMETERY OF ATHENS |
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Monday, 05 October 2020 13:54 |
We welcome the prompt reaction of the Athens Mayor, Kostas Bakoyannis, who put in motion the Municipality’s competent authorities that immediately erased the hideous slogans. Nazism has no place in our democracy mainly because it promotes its destruction along with the prevalence of the total violation of human rights. We express the certainty that the Greek State will take all necessary measures so that the perpetrators will be arrested and face justice. We will not be intimidated. Zero tolerance for Nazism. Altogether, citizens regardless of religion, law enforcement and justice authorities have to be in alert and make sure that the Nazi crimes against humanity will never be committed again. Antisemitism lays in the very root of the “absolute evil” that Nazism expresses. It starts with the Jews but never stops at them. Antisemitism targets the fundamental human rights that Europe needs to safeguard through concrete measures both in the context of Justice and Education. Athens, October 5, 2020 Central Board of Jewish Communities in Greece REACTIONS BY THE GREEK GOVERNMENT -Tweet by the MINISTER OF FOREIGN AFFAIRS NIKOS DENDIAS: “The vandal attack against the Jewish cemetery in Athens causes sorrow and repugnance. Nazism and its followers have no place in our society, in any society”. -Announcement of the GOVERNMENT SPOKESMAN STELIOS PETSAS: “The vandalism of the Jewish cemetery of Athens with Nazi slogans causes dismay to every democratic citizen. Nazism, antisemitism and their followers have no place in Greece and they will not be tolerated. The State has taken all necessary measures in order to arrest the perpetrators and bring them to justice”. -Tweet by the MINISTER OF EDUCATION NIKI KERAMEUS: “I have contacted the President of the Jewish Community of Athens and expressed our condemnation for the desecration of the Jewish Cemetery of Athens as well as our commitment that the Greek Ministry of Education will persistently continue with its practices to combat antisemitism”. -Tweet by the MINISTER OF DEVELOPMENT ADONIS GEORGIADIS: “Shame! This by no means expresses the feelings of the Greek people” -Tweets by the EMBASSY OF ISRAEL in Greece. In three separate tweets, the embassy wrote: RELEVANT: |