Giannitis Tasos: The family tragedy that marked him – The murder of his son in Mexico

His life , nominated for proposals from PASOK-KINAL, changed a few days after the New Year’s 2001, when he received the most unpleasant news as a parent. Tasos Giannitsi’s son, Constantine was dead. 24 years ago, Tasos Giannitis, then Minister of Labour in the Simitis government, experienced the worst tragedy of his life. CORVERSE His 27-year-old son Constantine Giannitsis, was murdered in distant Mexico where he had traveled for a short day’s vacation. The unfortunate young man, with studies at MIT, was ambushed by bandits, outside a Catholic temple in the town of Tasco, two and a half hours away from Mexico City. The 27-year-old traveled to Mexico with a friend for Christmas celebrations. When the two friends wanted to explore the sights of the city of Tasco, they did not expect this unpleasant development. Later, a police officer in Mexico would say Constantine was attacked by thugs in a alley, late in the afternoon of December 30. CORVERSE As it turns out, the perpetrators stabbed him in the sternum while removing the petty amount of $8 and a camera he had on him. “… He was alone. He was attacked in a narrow alley at 3:30 noon. They killed him with a knife, a blow to the sternum and robbed him. Soon after he was transferred to the Red Cross hospital, but it was already late…”, Ernesto Armando Gutienneth Romero, an officer of the Iwala City Police in Mexico, who had undertaken to investigate the circumstances of the murder The news fell like lightning to the family of Tasu Yanitsi. “The time was one after midnight when Tasos Giannitis was informed by then Foreign Minister George Papandreou about Constantine’s murder. The mother of the unfortunate young man, Anna, collapsed,” they wrote the News at the time. Tasos Giannitsis travelled with his sister to Mexico City in order to receive the corpse of the unfortunate young man.