Dead outside the Parliament and yet some people are not ashamed...

«It's over, my child, it's gone. It's... it's over. He's dead. He'll give up his organs. He will become an organ donor and it will be tomorrow morning. I want him back, I don't want anything else. And I said because he's such a good guy, he was such a good guy and he was giving to everybody, to give his organs, to give his happiness and his love and his sensitivity, to give it to another person. And I hope those people who get his organs are young children, I asked for them to be but I can't choose, and that they live happily and take at least a little bit of his sensibility and be happy.».

These are the words of the mother of the 23-year-old who «disappeared» in front of the Parliament. Jason could have been my child, my brother, my partner, my friend. 

There are so many aspects to this accident in which a man died and they all cause so much anger that you don't know, frankly, how to contain your anger...

-A traffic accident that happened in broad daylight at the most central point of Athens.

-A traffic accident that took place outside what is probably the best guarded part of the capital.

-A car accident that was made in a place where there are too many cameras. Not only of Parliament, but also those from the government buildings and embassies around.

-A car accident, which was attempted to be... buried in many ways: it was silenced by TV stations and websites and made public through social media. A traffic cop threatened an eyewitness and asked him to get up and leave the scene, twitter users also threatened when they tried to make the truth known.

-A traffic accident which was «made public» by the Athens traffic police subdirectorate, after it had become an uproar As the driver of the vehicle allegedly violated the traffic code, he fled the scene, and was not sought ex officio.

And the social media, these that are bad for democracy as the Prime Minister used to say of the country in the Parliament at the time when the accident with the victim Jason, they brought the truth to light.

The family of the 23-year-old seeks witnesses of the accident. In the place where there are so many cameras and so many eyes, mostly official and official. One of the witnesses, the one shown in the video that some have tried to hide, says that the unfortunate motorcyclist passed normally on a green light and that the official vehicle moved irregularly.

Policeman: Prosecute him for talking nonsense. What are you, the devil's advocate?;
Witness: But the child...
Policeman: Let the kid go... are you wearing your helmet? ...get up and get out of here!

This was the shocking dialogue...

There is silence on the cases of citizens injured by police officers, or if the incidents come to light, an attempt is made... character assassination and covering up or washing out the perpetrator. For the Mr. Panteles, they are right and every Mr. Panteles doesn't understand that they give the same value to his own life after all.

With the #rance, as was the hashtag in twitter, it once again highlights that if the roles were reversed, if a police officer had been injured by a car or motorbike, there would have been an immediate manhunt to arrest the driver responsible for not only causing the accident, but also leaving the victim.

But here, we had a civilian motorcyclist lying on the roadway and politicians, police officers and tried to cover it up, but they also threatened witnesses. Isn't that a shame? Aren't they ashamed? They didn't do anything to help at the time, they don't do anything afterwards. Because it was an official vehicle? Rhetorical question... The accident is clearly not a political issue, but its cover-up is a disgrace and a scandal.

And so, while the family appeals for witnesses, the Speaker of the Parliament, if not the Prime Minister himself, the MPs, someone who (supposedly) serves democracy, does not come out to say that «here we are, we'll give all the evidence, camera footage, the police officers and the traffic policemen of the Parliament will go and testify». To have lost your own person and to have to struggle to find out the truth in your time of mourning. 

Democracy has three basic features:
Equinox: Equal time for all citizens)
Balance: equality of citizens before the law).
Isocracy: equal weight of citizens in the decisions of the state, i.e. equal political rights.

That's democracy... And is not threatened by social media. Unfortunately, it is often harmed by its officials... And it is now up to our democracy to win in the memory of the Jason.

By Vasso Prevezianou