«Everyone at Syntagma at 7 am against the release of Lignadis» - The call of the actors

The Greek Actors' Association (SEI) will hold a protest rally at 19:00 in the afternoon at Syntagma against the release of Dimitris Lignadis.

«We are deeply angry, disappointed and frightened by yesterday's decision of the MOD to suspend the imprisonment of Dimitris Lignadis, who is guilty of 2 rapes of minors. We are traumatized,» the union said in its statement and called for participation.

«We fail to understand how it is possible that someone who was remanded in custody, because there were indications of serial rape, can be released when it is now PROVEN that he has committed two rapes. We are unable to find a similar case, beyond the ten year sentence, that has been paroled. Just like that,» the SEH adds.

In detail the announcement of the SEI for the call against Dimitris Lignadis

GATHERING TODAY AT THE CONSTITUTION AT 19:00

We are alive and present in a crime.

In a crime that proves that power, money, public relations and powerful friends are above justice.

Justice is selective, biased and protects the powerful of this land, spreading fear with its decision to them and those who had the courage to speak out, but also to all of us.

We are deeply angry, disappointed and frightened by yesterday's decision of the MOP to suspend the imprisonment of Dimitris Lignadis, the first guilty of 2 rapes of minors.
We are injured.

We fail to understand how it is possible that someone who was detained in custody because there was evidence of serial rape can be released when it is now PROVEN that he has committed two rapes.

We are unable to find a similar case, beyond the ten-year sentence, that has been suspended. Just like that.

We are unable to understand how the «dangerous» man according to Mendoni, who «deceived her with his hypocritical art» is evaluated by President Panagiota Youpi as not dangerous for committing a new crime until the appeal!

And how, now, this man will walk freely among us, next to his former victims and to unprotected and objectively impossible to be informed about the case by minors from other countries.

But we do not forget that this blatant violation not only of the common sense of justice in society, but of the institution of Justice itself, is a continuation of a series of decisions that stretch the laws only where it is in the interests of the law: the murderers of Jacques, E. Korkoneas, P. Filippidis. Will there be a follow-up to the Golden Dawn appeals?;
But we are not afraid.

Although, temporarily we bend, seeing the unjust trampling on us, we take courage and see the essence:

Dimitris Lignadis is guilty in the first instance of 2 rapes of minors.

He, the former artistic director of the National Theatre, a professor at the Arsakeio and the drama school of the National Theatre, whose cabinet attended his performances and the Prime Minister took helicopters from Antiparos to attend his premiere, was condemned for his heinous behaviour towards the most tender members of our society.

And not because a plot, a political conspiracy, a selfishly motivated revenge was set up: the whole line of defence, but also his own allegations, collapsed solemnly.
So we take heart, because no matter how much we have been criticised, we know that we did what we had to do. We have stood by the victims from the beginning, we have exhausted all the means at our disposal and we have invited everyone and everything to speak out and not to be afraid.

So we will continue to do the same.

No matter how much the coordinated, ostensibly discrete powers that be do everything they can to stem the tide of metoo, now that they understand that it is hitting their own children, we will continue to call for collective action and anonymous complaints of abusive behavior.

The release of Dimitris Lignadis is the most striking proof that we no longer live in a rule of law. It is proof of the revenge of the rotten bourgeois power represented by the government against anyone who dares to denounce the crimes of its own children. At the same time, it leaves Yannis Michaelides to die slowly after 52 days of a hunger strike for exactly the same vindictive reasons, blatantly dividing citizens into first and second class.

You will not gag us, you will not bend us, you will find us where we have always been. Against your rotten power, together with the victims, together with the weak, together with what is defined by true Justice and Democracy!

We owe it to ourselves, but especially to Nikos S., A., P., S., B. and the witnesses at the trial, who were not afraid and spoke out and spoke out, as the prosecutor said in his speech.

For them we will be at 7 pm at Syntagma!’