Jun 3, 2025
Unbelievably ridiculous! Four Greeks are being prosecuted for …racism because they shouted “Free Palestine” to Israeli tourists who on their part demonstrated power and …money.
The four Greeks are accused of illegal violence with racist motives.
Criminal prosecution for illegal violence with racist motives (!) was brought against four young men who dared to shout “Free Palestine” at Israeli tourists.
The latter reacted strongly and in the end replied “we have a lot of money”, meaning that this gives them the right to do whatever they want.
It all happened last Thursday morning, May 27, on the beach of Vouliagmeni in south-east Attica.
The tourists from Israel called the police who arrested one of the accused, who was shouting slogans against the genocide taking place in Palestine.
However, later, with the same charges – namely, illegal violence with racist motives (82A P.C.) for a slogan in favor of Palestine – the friends of the arrestee were also arrested, when they went to the Police Station where he had been transferred in order to support him.
According to the prosecution, the racist violence suffered by the tourists from Israel is that… they were forced to leave the beach when they had no obligation to.
The absurdity continued after all four were arrested and taken the next day to the Athens Single-Member Criminal Court, the composition of which made its surprise evident when it saw the charges and the case as a whole.
“Since the charges coordinated with Zionist propaganda are obvious, as a slogan in favor of a people that is disappearing day after day, counting thousands of dead children, does not contain racist characteristics. noted efimerida ton syntakton (efsyn.gr) that reported the story.
According to article 82A of the Criminal Code, a racist motive is recognized “if a crime has been committed against a victim, whose choice was made due to the characteristics of race, color, national or ethnic origin, genealogical roots, religion, disability, sexual orientation, identity or gender characteristics”. In the case of the four Greeks, however, no matter how much one tries to prove the opposite, none of this is true, as this is a slogan in favor of the people of Palestine that was not directed against the state of Israel, while at the same time there is not even a crime.
It is worth noting that the racist motive was not recognized in the trial for the lynching to death of Zak Kostopoulos, while it was more than obvious, and it is generally observed that it is clearly indistinguishable in obvious racist crimes. As it seems, however, Jacques Kostopoulos is one thing and the Israeli tourists who… “have money” are another. State mechanisms have long seemed ready to side with the narrative of Trump and far-right European governments about anti-Semitism when the demand is justice and life for Palestine, which is being torturously destroyed day by day.
The trial was postponed to June 10 and the four were released.
“This is the first time I have seen a racist charge for something that concerns a political crisis and a political expression,” Anny Paparrousou, defense attorney, told the newspaper.
“Racist motives are very specific, the law describes them one by one. In essence, it is a distortion, so that we introduce a political crisis or a political slogan within the framework of the regulation of the law on racist characteristics,” Paparrousou stressed.
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