It is significant that in the latest Alco poll for Open, Michael Chrysochoidis has a very high rate of negative opinion among citizens, while it was presented as a “strong card” of the government, while the doctrine of “law and order” is seriously affected. In the same poll, the majority of citizens state that they felt more secure three years ago, i.e. when SYRIZA was in power, despite the theories that the country was a closed vineyard and criminals were easily released from prison because of the “Paraskevopoulos law”.
Mr. Mitsotakis referring to the reorganization of the Greek Police. “The new conditions in the world of crime require new structures in the world of law enforcement,” he said, and congratulated the Minister, all the officials of the Ministry of Citizen Protection, the Greek Police, because “as the recent cases have shown, the Police knows and can reach a solution with professionalism, with method, with patience, with patience, with the use of technology. Lately, after all, it does not reveal guilty parties on its own; it only brings results when they are made available, in the hands of experts.” He thus referred implicitly but clearly to the femicide in Sweet Waters.
With the new arrangement of its forces, the Greek Police aspires to lead more quickly, more documented the illegal immigrants to Justice, which will have the final role and reason to judge fairly, the Prime Minister said.
Mitsotakis insisted that ”the release of prisoners was made easier by regulations of the previous government. And, of course, we know well that the earlier beneficial provisions take precedence - as we know - over the later ones even if they have been in force for one day.” It is recalled that the Southwest had claimed that the Petralona rapist had been released from prison under the Paraskevopoulos law, but when the former minister pointed out that the perpetrator had been released under the Mitsotakis government, the Truth Group had refuted this.
The Prime Minister also recalled that some initial corrections have been made to the changes in the Criminal Code, launched by the previous government. “Circumstances, however, are constantly changing for this and there will soon be the appointment of the Standing Committee on Codes Monitoring to cure any failures that remain. Until then, let politicians respect the human dramas and leave the criminal crimes to the persecutors and their judges,” he concluded.
Chrysochoidis in a difficult position
The truth is, however, that the Minister for Civil Protection is in an awkward position and everyone knows that the confession of the woman killer is mainly due to the discovery through technology that he removed the SIM card of the recorder of the cameras of the residence in Sweet Waters and the “inspiration” of the forensic scientist to search for evidence on the smartwatch of the murdered Caroline. While the police were for a long time oriented towards the “narrative” (of the pilot) of burglary and were looking for foreign burglars, while they arrested and detained the Georgian who, subsequently, reported that he was tortured to confess.
The fact that there is no dramatic development in the investigations into organised crime, nothing has been traced to the murder of George Karaiwaz, while the convicted neo-Nazi and deputy leader of H.A., Christos Pappas has been missing for about 9 months, are proof that many things are not working properly in the ministry of Mr. Chrysochoidis.
Shadows about the latter are now thick in the Maximos building, but the Prime Minister seems determined to support his personal choice to the end, or at least until the next big mistake...
