Foto dalle proteste ad Atene, in Grecia, riguardo alle 57 morti in treno.

The Balkans are rising up it seems.Student protests and general strikes in Serbia,Croatia,Greece,Slovakia and talks about protests in Bosnia over people being killed in the floods.I hope this leads to something.

I am really curious as to how the media will manage to downgrade it. 

There was a law that with more than a million signatures (we are 10 m) a popular request can be officially enforced. The Tempi political investigation petition was signed by 1,5 m iirc and the government still refused, justifying this by some technicalities (law not being enforced, the online platform etc). The resignation of the minister, without him not even being deleted by the party and even more being reelected, is laughable. The prime minister publicly and shamelessly claimed in the media the same day that it was the fault of the employee (!), as if any investigation had happened, while the automatic safe control systems didn’t work etc. The investigation and the media coverage are purposely shunned by the government. 

Edit: the one that personally angers me the most, is that some weeks before the accident an opposition mp asked in parliament the minister about the inadequate safety in trains. The minister raised his finger and replied with arrogance “How dare you question the safety of our trains?”. In the site the morning of the tragedy he announced his resignation shedding crocodile tears.

It’s not only about a train crash.

-Employees warned that the trains are not safe

-The gov lied about the safety of the railroad

-The crash happens and a lot of people died from fire/explosion from some sort of fuel, that shouldn’t exist

-The gov immediately covered up the evidence before the investigation.

-They didn’t let employees of the railroad company tell that the trains were not safe(in front of the camera, they stop the guy from speaking)

-The minister whines, why should he lose his position because of a train crash(he was the one that lied).

-Another minister says that if he didn’t lie, people wouldn’t use the trains

-In the news, the only thing that they say is that it was not the gov’s fault.

-Ministers say that the families of the victims should stop talking about it, no one cares anymore.

-They attack family members that try to speak, saying that the they are doing it for political reasons.

-The prosecutors son disappears. No one knows were he went. The prosecutor withdraws from the case.

I may have missed something

Hopefully this is a wake up call for us Greeks to be more politically active. Unbelievable that this government was elected despite fucking up left and right 

New accident?

Or the one a few years ago?

We need to start voting. And not the same 3 mainstream parties.

Everytime I speak about the corruption of the Greek government with a Northern European, they cannot comprehend the extend of it. Especially the corruption of the ruling family, is beyond imagination. And no, “voting them out” like we are in Denmark does not work. Just in the 15 past years we had blatant undemocratic practices.

In 2011 when the elected PM, George Papandreou, said he cannot pass the austerity measures proposed by the EU and the IMF and we should go to a referendum, PASOK(the then ruling party) and ND(the currently ruling party) overthrew him and planted an unelected ECB employee as the Prime Minister. He went on to pass the laws proposed by the IMF and EU, as an, I repeat, unelected Prime Minister.

The Greek public dissilusioned by the two big parties, turned to SYRIZA, a far left party which up to this point was barely getting 3%. In 2015 SYRIZA along with ANEL(right wing/patriotic party) get voted to form a government under the promise that they will actually negotiate with the EU and IMF, and not “sign whatever they give us without reading it” as Chrysochoidis(minister of multiple governments and the current one) famously has said. After 6 months of negotiations, PM Alexis Tsipras says that he cannot take the responsibility of such a decision and we should go to a referendum. The referendum results are clear, 60% or 3.500.000 votes(no governement in the 191 years of the Greek state has ever gotten 3.500.000 votes,) decide to DECLINE the austerity measures. In one night, the parliament except KKE(communist party) and Golden Dawn(fascist party,) overturned the result of the referendum and passed the laws. SYRIZA along with ND and PASOK.

And we get to the current government, the Mitsotakis government. The Mitsotakis name is synonymous with corruption and betrayal. Nazi collaborators, main family behind the Siemens scandal(70bil worth scandal,) antiquity smuggling and many, many more crimes that have been covered up. In my 33 years of living in this country, I have never seen a more shameless and frankly criminal government. Dimitris Lignadis, a close friend of the PM, was convicted of 4 child rapes and never spent a day in prison. I am not exaggerating here, the guy got convicted of 4 child rapes and he is free this very moment. The Patsis scandal, even though it was a 500mil scandal, is pretty much forgotten because it is peanuts compared to the history of the family and the party. There was a murder of a journalist(Greek-Egyptian journalist Karaivaz) who has been covered up, and the excuse the government gave was that the evidence of the murder were in a CD that was accidentally scratched by some keys, so the evidence is lost. I kid you not. They used spyware and were recording phone calls of their immidiate political opponents.

And the most shameless scandal, the Tempi scandal. 7 days before the two trains crashed, the Minister of Infrastructure and Public Transportation Karamanlis, was asked inside the parliament about the lack of security system in this specific part of the railroad network(Tempi.) The minister, in a furious state, asked the parliament member to take back what he said, that he should feel ashamed to even utter such words, assuring that they(ND party) made the railroads completely safe. 7 days after this performance, 57 people died in the place we were assured it was safe.

But it’s not just that. After the murder, because it is murder, a new private company was found in order to clean up the site of the murder even before the investigation began. They threw cement on it. There are legs and arms of victims inside this cement.

I am not the best or most knowledgable person about all this stuff and I certainly cannot tell everything in one reddit post. But trust me, democratic ways of solving problems do not work in a tyranny.

whaaat?
Greece too?

oh, be sane people, please