Response to a comment from his press secretary SYRIZAPopis Tsapanidou, for his report State Department given by a government spokesman, Yannis Oikonomou, noting that “similar and worse reports were recorded in the years when Mr. Tsipras ruled“.

Mr. Economos’ statement in detail

“Desperate and unbridled SYRIZA applies polarization to issues related to the image of our country in the international arena.

SYRIZA – not knowing and at the same time completely misrepresenting the truth – wants us to believe that in the State Department’s annual report on human rights in Greece, she found another “conclusion” to oppose the government, not caring that in her efforts this homeland hurts. Of course, he overlooks the fact that similar and worse reports were recorded during the years of Mr. Tsipras’s rule.

For Ms. Tsapanidou’s information, and as a reminder to the rest of SYRIZA, we are quoting some of the information from a report relating to 2018 during Mr. Tsipras’ administration, where the State Department already lists human rights issues on the front page, which include “complaints about repeated asylum applications, corruption and violence directed against members of the LGBTI community, as well as refugee women and children”, while the report also recorded attacks on journalists and violations of the law in various areas.

In the section on torture and inhuman treatment, the 2018 report notes that “there have been reports of mistreatment of migrants, asylum seekers, protesters and Roma, including children, in police stations and places of detention.”

“Conditions in prisons and pre-trial detention centers, including pre-trial detention centers, consistently fell short of national and international standards,” the State Department said.

The chapter on abuse notes that in 2018, “NGOs reported incidents of racially motivated or hate-motivated violence by law enforcement agencies,” adding that in 2017, oversight bodies recorded 117 complaints of abuse of power by law enforcement forces.

The freedoms section of the report states that “journalists were victims of physical assault, harassment, or because of their work on at least seven occasions.” Similar issues are recorded in the reports of other years of SYRIZA’s reign.

So let the speculation stop. Greece is a European legal state. Issues presented in various areas are viewed in this light, as documented in detailed and well-documented progress reports from the European Commission and others.

After all, the State Department’s own report states: “The government is taking steps to investigate, prosecute, and punish officials who have committed human rights violations or are involved in corruption cases, whether in the security forces or in other parts of public administration and government. “.

SYRIZA, literally following the methods of polarization, continues to furiously look for ways to harm the government, not thinking that this is how it harms our Motherland itself.

Tsapanidou: international dragging of the country under the responsibility of Mitsotakis

It is noted that earlier Popi Tsapanidou spoke about the “international burden for the country, led by Mitsotakis”, commenting on the report of the State Department.

Ms. Tsapanidou’s statement in detail

“It is interesting how those responsible for the violation of human rights, democracy and information in Greece, described in the darkest terms not by SYRIZA, but by the State Department, feel. What the US State Department report says is not new to us. We knew it and we live it.

The news is the international dragging of the country on the eve of our national holiday by the government and the prime minister who promised national revival and is leading us to national humiliation. I believe that anyone who reads the State Department report will agree that we do not deserve this Greece. It doesn’t go any further!”