Adonis Georgiades for Tempe: “Cannibalism attempts, Karamanlis has no criminal responsibilities”

For “cannibalism” he mentions in posting for today’s Wednesday (20.03. 24), stressing that the former Minister of Infrastructure and Transport, Costas Karamanlis, has no criminal responsibilities. In a long post Adonis Georgiadis refers to the opposition’s attitude to the tragedy of the Tempes and in particular to what they support SYRIZA and PASOK for the former minister’s criminal responsibilities for Convention 717, noting that, if so, then “SYRIZA ministers should be in prison from the first moment”. Speaking of “cannibalism attempted” at the expense of Mr. Karamanlis for Tembis, the Minister of Health notes that “he is not a murderer and has no criminal responsibilities for the accident”. “I fully understand the anger, pain and fear of the Common Opinion on this tragic accident, but an accident was not a crime. No one wanted to kill all these children, nor did anyone act in vain, in other words to do so,” notes A. Georgiades. The post of Adoni Georgiades “…..filtate and the Truth” In my life since the first day my fellow citizens, they have done me the honour of electing me unreservedly as their representative in Parliament, I have decided not to behave as an ordinary politician. Not to decide in the light of my personal political costs, not to hide my true opinion about something that I consider important, when the common opinion is very much opposed and therefore to coincide with the current or silence being more politically beneficial. When I supported from the first day of our bankruptcy in 2010, the Memorandum, almost on my own in public at the time, received 200 minms daily with curses and insults to see then when those who cursed me took the authority to apply it to the letter and even to a harsher version due to the lost time that had interceded. But that’s how I am and I don’t intend to change now. When the New Democracy secured its huge victory last May, I naively believed that the Opposition would realize that the Greek people had rejected toxicity and hatred and we could enter a period of political regularity. I was wrong! I am monitoring, like all of us at this time, cannibalism that is being attempted by various parties against the former Minister of Transport and Infrastructure, MP of Serres Mr. Costas Karamanlis. With the Karamanlis family I had no particular political relations. Perhaps they would face me at first and with one reservation and because of a political route and because of style. I had a very good cooperation with Mr. Costas Karamanlis, but I have to say that I still believe he was a good Minister. I imagine there are many within my Party, with extremely close political ties with him and his family, but I am sorry to see that I cannot remain silent. I lose in popularity and votes that I write today an article like this, but if I don’t say what I believe, I’ll be ashamed of not saying it once. This morning on Sky’s television I listened to Pasok’s Secretary, Mr. Spyropoulos (with the “gal” style that distinguishes him …) saying: “Mr. Karamanlis must be brought to Justice, because if he had completed contract 717 in time, then the children would not have died…”. But then in the persistent questions of journalists “what is the criminal offence that you accuse him of,” he said again: “instead of declaring the contractor to be deductible and fined, he gave her more money to continue the work…” In general, according to Pasok (I am afraid that this same total confusion prevails in most of the Common Opinion) Mr. Costas Karamanlis is also responsible criminally and because he failed to complete the contract at 100% of the route, in order to avoid the accident, but also at the same time because he did not declare the contractor to be liable, then the project would have stopped automatically and therefore the accident would certainly not have been avoided…. Mr Costas Karamanlis, according to the majority, is responsible both for one and the exact opposite of it … it is absolutely obvious that this cannot be the case and therefore most likely that Mr Karamanlis should be responsible, because someone should be responsible for such a tragic event! And if the accusations launched by relatives and especially the parents of these children are absolutely justified and respected (all of us simply have to bow our heads to those suffering the greatest pain that exists in this life), as far as our political opponents are concerned, only disgust can this vile political exploitation cause. I referred to Mr. Costas Karamanlis’ family not by accident. Generally in politics and life having a heavy surname is good, but there are times when it can prove very bad. I am convinced that one of the reasons why this former Minister accepts this magnitude of criticism and anger is his surname. Something so tragic to heal wants a great sacrifice and which could be greater than a Karamanlis. In this automatic reaction of the Joint Opinion our political opponents think they have had the opportunity to overturn political correlations and bring a major blow to our Party and the Government. If I thought that Mr Karamanlis had some evidence of criminal liability, I would be the first to tell him. But if I accept that the failure, at least, of a minister to end it faster (because he finally finished it) a contract, that it gives rise to criminal responsibilities, then no Minister would stay out of prison. To give it to you to understand with two examples. One of the most dangerous roads in the country with most traffic accidents each year is BOAK in Crete, another the Patras/Tower route. Both roads have been announced by different Governments, have joined contracts, have been relegated, etc., so far still incomplete. If a Minister has criminal responsibilities because a Convention has not been concluded and so no tragic accident has been avoided, then why do not all the Ministers who have failed to finish these roads have their respective criminal responsibilities? In the tragedy in Matti, which Syriza has completely forgotten, of course, for the 106 dead there, not banners he posted, but not even post, the prosecutorial sentence said in words: “If it had been completed then 112 would have saved people and lived…”. So with the same reasoning all the Ministers of Syriza who did not complete 112 (which we built within a few months of being so easy as it was, while the contract 717 Syriza 5 years failed to finish it) should already be in prison. Nobody thinks of these things and highlights them because the pain that this tragedy has caused us all has prevailed and that is to some extent understandable, but on the other hand we cannot by our pain and by their bulimia for power, abolish all the rules of reason. Mr Karamanlis has also become the most outrageous, however. When the accident occurred and visited the site, immediately, taking full responsibility for political responsibility, he resigned. I doubt that after what followed this resignation, whether a minister will be found in the future who will imitate him. His resignation, as a result of the genuine burden on his conscience that caused him the accident, was taken by the Common Opinion about as a confession of guilt. Even his decision to expose himself in the elections, in the crisis of his fellow citizens, was considered nerve, as if it were not in the Republic that the citizens who ultimately decide are not. Mr. Pappas of Syriza came to the point of cursing on air his fellow citizens in Serres who voted for him, as complicit in Murder… we are talking about extreme populism and absurdity. And when Kyriakos Velopoulos had begun conspiracy theories about the “trouble” (the necessary i.e. landscaping to set up the cranes and immediately pick up the wagons that weighed tons and find any survivors or collect the bodies) most did not pay attention. Today, however, the majority of the common opinion is based on its belief in the so-called ‘comprehension’ in this nonsense, which some people are also somewhat charging again to Mr Karamanlis, who had already resigned. Today, Mr. Androuliakis (a huge disappointment this one unfortunately) accused me of using for Tembi gebelian propaganda, but should this sincere, the Minister of Shipping, for example, in Samina, have gone to prison? Because that means criminal responsibilities, Minister. I sincerely believe that in the tragedy of the Tempe accident our Government, out of embarrassment and the pain that we all feel about this event, has completely lost the battle of impressions in the Common Opinion. And so we came to be blamed by the majority for Covering up, when for Eye the Trial is now held after 6 years, while for Tempes the Trial will begin in less than 1.5 years from the tragedy. The first is considered normal, the second cover-up, if possible. And we should be accused of political exploitation in Matty, when we accused them only of incompetence and illustrious theatre, and we never said that it should become a preliminary for their Ministers, now they are talking about the criminal responsibilities of Ministers for a Accident that was baptized ‘crime’ and ‘murder’. I fully understand the anger, pain and fear of the Joint Opinion on this tragic accident, but an accident was not a crime. No one wanted to kill all these children, nor did anyone act in vain in order to do so. Unbearable, each of us thinks that his own child could be on this train, but we must not let this pain turn Greece back to political toxicity. Greece will pay for this in the future. And not Mr. Costas Karamanlis is not a murderer and has no criminal responsibilities for the accident. Many daily public contracts are not implemented, many competitions stop in court, many corporate disputes delay many projects. Make better procedures, find a way to make things better, make better trains, a lot to do but not become a jungle that will blame each other! Enough with vulgarity in politics”.