No wonder that racism and xenophobia still exist across the Western world, when the so-called cradle of Western civilisation and democracy is one of the most xenophobic countries in the World and it is definitely the most xenophobic European country.
Yes, you guess right. I'm talking about Greece.
The last disturbing case occurred on 18-th of august in Thessaloniki, when 27-year-old Nigerian immigrant Tony Onouha died. Tony Onouha, a seller of pirate CDs, died on Saturday after falling from a first-floor cafeteria balcony in the Thessaloniki suburb of Kalamaria. Relatives said Onouha fell from the balcony in an attempt to flee plainclothes policemen. But police have denied any part in the death, saying no local officers had been assigned to patrol the area on that night.
And yes, yet again we should blindly believe the official police story. The sad reality is that this is not the first case of this kind (remember the recent case with the Albanian immigrants), and unfortunately I think that it won't be the last one.
When I mentioned above that Greece is the most xenophobic European country, I didn't make up this story. Just take a brief look at the researches and surveys from the EU Agency for fundamental rights (FRA) (former European Monitoring Centre on Racism and Xenophobia (EUMC) ) and you will get the right picture. For more details you can visit their web site - http://fra.europa.eu/fra/index.php
So, it hasn't changed much from the days of ancient Athens, where foreigners didn't have almost any rights. Now, 2300 years after, in the 21-st century Greece shows the same symptoms.
My question is - Is this the example that non-western countries have to follow in their pursuit for the democracy? Or should the rest non-EU European countries follow this example for their accession into EU?!?
I don't think so!
Yes, you guess right. I'm talking about Greece.
The last disturbing case occurred on 18-th of august in Thessaloniki, when 27-year-old Nigerian immigrant Tony Onouha died. Tony Onouha, a seller of pirate CDs, died on Saturday after falling from a first-floor cafeteria balcony in the Thessaloniki suburb of Kalamaria. Relatives said Onouha fell from the balcony in an attempt to flee plainclothes policemen. But police have denied any part in the death, saying no local officers had been assigned to patrol the area on that night.
And yes, yet again we should blindly believe the official police story. The sad reality is that this is not the first case of this kind (remember the recent case with the Albanian immigrants), and unfortunately I think that it won't be the last one.
When I mentioned above that Greece is the most xenophobic European country, I didn't make up this story. Just take a brief look at the researches and surveys from the EU Agency for fundamental rights (FRA) (former European Monitoring Centre on Racism and Xenophobia (EUMC) ) and you will get the right picture. For more details you can visit their web site - http://fra.europa.eu/fra/index.php
So, it hasn't changed much from the days of ancient Athens, where foreigners didn't have almost any rights. Now, 2300 years after, in the 21-st century Greece shows the same symptoms.
My question is - Is this the example that non-western countries have to follow in their pursuit for the democracy? Or should the rest non-EU European countries follow this example for their accession into EU?!?
I don't think so!
3 comments:
Guess the Greek policemen were trying to brought back to life some old Spartan "games". Only this time they weren't carrying any bags, snakes, or rats with them.
This is a serious and a tragic case though I had to approach it with this sarcasm and cynicism to equal the terrifying attitude and the maliciousness of the police officers.
You have to express more your opinion to attract more readers, because just a video or plain text without any personal approach is not that valuable. But it is just form my point of view
Not bad article, but I really miss that you didn't express your opinion, but ok you just have different approach
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