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A music producer was fired from the station because he dared to criticize the Greek Police and the Minister of Citizen Protection, Michalis Chrysochoidis.
We live in a time when censorship tends to become a regime. And, in fact, censorship directly by the Greek Police. A new victim this time, a music producer from the Larissa Municipal Radio, Costas Stavrianos. He saw the exit door of the station because in his program last week he dared to criticize the Greek Police and the Minister of Citizen Protection Michalis Chrysochoidis. As a result, the city council and Mayor Apostolis Kalogiannis, obeying calls from the Larissa Police Union, fired him from the radio.
I heard this particular program (“Terma ta nazia” its title) and I can tell you that Costas Stavrianos did not say anything more than what we say here, than what many people say. It was broadcast on December 17 and the reason for the comment was the well-known performance of the policeman on the anniversary of Alexis Grigoropoulos. The one who destroyed the bouquet that a lady deposited in memory of the murdered.
The music producer dedicated his show to the Greek Police, beginning with a very characteristic song, the excellent “fascist policemen” from The Kids. And it was a criticism accompanied by the clarification that “indeed there are policemen who serve and protect the citizen” and that “of course not all policemen are the same, there are some who are willing to abide by the Constitution and not constantly violate individuals” . civil liberties “.
Two excerpts
Read two characteristic excerpts of what he said, the ones that upset the Larissa Police Association the most. The first was for the police: “The Greek police certainly make ambitious efforts, especially recently, to justify all the characterizations that Greek people sometimes accuse them of. These fellow citizens who were obviously shocked and do not know that the policemen in the marches from 2008 they cursed the dead man and asked the assembled “where is Alexis?”
The second referred to the Minister of Civil Protection: “Of course the fish smell from the head. His request was to find a leadership that would untie his hands. And this request was heard by Chrysochoidis. Hands are untied, heads are opened, hands are broken, family asylum is violated. Greek police who avoid wearing badges as necessary, but wear other badges, such as iron fists on helmets and Nazi symbols on their arms. “
These comments provoked the reaction of the Larissa Police Union with its president Thanassis Davoura -as we read in onlarissa.gr- asking for the intervention of the Mayor of Larissa: “As an employee and citizen of Larissa, I am saddened by the fact that Radio Municipal de Larissa , this time through its frequency, the war of hate and mud against my fellow police officers, I unequivocally condemn those racist views and their defenders.
Greek police officers are an integral part of society and are overwhelmingly accepted by their fellow citizens. I am now awaiting the official reaction from the Mayor of Larissa, with whom, as the Larissa Police Association, we have a very good cooperation and I think that his spirit and personality in general do not welcome such views in any way. “I am proud of my colleagues and of my profession.”
A few days ago, another similar incident had preceded with a journalist from the station, Ilias Skyllakos. He again provoked the reaction of the local Police by a post on Facebook, about the police in his neighborhood on December 6! Obviously in Larissa the Police do no other task than to monitor the employees of the Municipal Radio.
Finally, Costas Stavrianos, a collaborator of the station in various ways for 15 years, was fired. The announcement of the municipal authority is shameful: “The music producer in question, as a volunteer collaborator of the Larissa Municipal Radio, has been conducting a program with musical selections for a year. He chose to abuse hospitality, arbitrarily turning it into a display of political commentary and even using the microphone of a public medium, as a monologue to promote his personal views on the Greek Police. Following these, from this moment, condemning his action, we take him out of the potential of the Municipal Radio collaborators ”.
