«The house of Tsipras and the house of the hanged man»

Below is the article by Ms Akrita:

The house of Tsipras... and the house of the hanged man

Who don't talk about rope. And when they do, they're judged. Not just about their own houses - thirty-two, I call a number at random. Really, how much did they all buy, how many loans did they take out, how much did they pay back to the banks, and how much do they still owe? What happened to the acres on Tinos - I say an island at random. What about Voltaire's house - I randomly name a writer.

And why are they doing this especially now? Why do they choose this time?;

Because they've made a mess of it, darling. One mistake after another, one blunder upon another, they are eating and eating and taking us from bad to worse.

And they're cycling us. Unabashedly. They ride on the black ridge of the Fishermen with a hundred dead a day. Dead by name, dead with family and children and friends and family and friends and enemies. The dead with haunts dear and songs dear and childhood memories, and strange hugs, and mishaps and nerves and kisses and hugs. Dead because we have no ICU, dead because the borders have been opened, dead because they are piled up on buses, dead because the government is the first to set a bad example when it cuts rides without masks and without precautions at fiestas and Parnithes.

So it is logical that they want to turn the spotlight on Tsipras' house. To focus on the trivial and the parapolitical. That, sweetheart, Machiavelli did that before he even crawled in and they think they invented gunpowder.

So let me say my apology, as I have done every Saturday for twenty years in this newspaper. When the house that was supposedly bought for 1.3 million euros turns out to be rented for 500 euros with documents and contracts, well, sorry.

And I'm telling you it's not 500 euros. And I tell you Tsipras is lying. Can you prove it? Because when you make such accusations, you should know that the accuser and not the ‘accused’ bears the burden of proving the facts. If I call you a thief, for example, I have to prove it. With papers and documents. You don't have to move from your chair.

So if we can't prove in writing that he rented it for double and triple - then the rent is 500 euros. As it says in the contract. Neither 449 nor 501. Five hundred. That's it.

I don't know which neighbors were interviewed and talked about two thousand dollar rents. Because I'm a neighbor, too. I have a house next door - my grandmother's for the bad guys. I know the area like the back of my hand and the prices and values and everything. And when I was struggling financially, I tried to both sell and rent. Does anyone honestly think we could collect 1,500 in rent? Really? In a recession? In an area where hundreds of properties are being sold, and very few are being rented?;

So what are we saying exactly? That I and every other me could make six grand a season and they'd be pissed? We'd make a killing. Those crazy amounts in 1999 with the stock market bubble that we were begging to buy our houses for as much as we wanted.

That's why I'm telling you. In the house of the hanged man they don't talk about the rented house.

And as the criminal lawyer Thanasis Kampagiannis said.

«When 100 people die every day and the only thing that concerns the whole government is whether the leader of the opposition, president of a bourgeois party and former prime minister can rent a cottage for 500 euros a month, you understand that on New Year's Eve, in the midst of a pandemic and the shortcomings of the health system, you are more likely to meet St. Peter than Santa Claus.».

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