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The intervention of Maximos in 2013 that significantly delayed the anti-racism bill is denounced by Antonis Roupakiotis, a former Minister of Justice of the Samaras government.
Speaking to Open this morning, the lawyer said that “by May 2013 we had prepared a full bill against racism, taking into account that Golden Dawn was threshing and while we were literally ready to tie the volume, send it to the general secretary from the government, Maximou’s message: stop, this anti-racism bill is not being passed. “
Mr Roupakiotis stressed that there was pressure for the preparation of the bill, since on 1/1/2014 Greece would assume the presidency of the EU. “And how would it go if the Golden Dawn issue was open – without an anti-racism bill,” he said.
However, as the former minister pointed out, “it stopped, they cut him off and then it was announced that the secretary general, Takis Baltakos, promised to draft this bill, and the minister in front of the prime minister, Dimitris Stamatis.” Do you know what the result was? Law 4285 to be approved in 2014, while Pavlos Fyssas had been assassinated “.
“Why was the anti-racism bill stopped? Could it prevent a murder? I don’t know. It couldn’t or couldn’t.” If Parliament passes such an anti-racism bill unanimously, the security forces they would get the message and possibly some prosecutors would spread to Greek society that the Greek Parliament is against racism, against nationalism, against fascism, against Nazism. “
He then estimated that the deaths would have been prevented if Golden Dawn had been brought to justice earlier. “If there were 25 cases, 30, before Lukman was killed and before Fyssas was killed, wouldn’t it be a single case?” And then it would be evaluated by the courts as a criminal organization, “he said.
“In 25, in 27, in 28 cases, why did we become inactive?” Did Fyssas have to be assassinated to open the matter? “He asked, noting that by then there had already been serious injuries, the murders in Volos and the murder of Lukman.
Mr. Roupakiotis referred to the criticism stemming from the delay. “There was a lot of noise and the Greek-American European organizations reacted, the council of Jewish organizations reacted here, the Ombudsman, the Ombudsman of the Council of Europe, reacted Muiznieks, a Latvian who has as much to do with communism as I do with communism. “China, the UN High Commissioner for Refugees has reacted.”
“The facts are shocking.” What I am saying now – not sounding like a prophet, to show credibility and documentation – I have said repeatedly to colleagues, on television stations immediately after and months after my resignation, “he said.
