Helen Gerasimidou: If the door was locked, I don’t know what would happen

About the danger she had faced when confronted with a director who had “strange” behavior, she said that once the director, who did not reveal his name, began to approach her, she left. “I passed through the Field of Mars, I arrived in Nea Smyrna on foot,” said Eleni Gerasimidou in an interview with the newspaper Avgi. Bad times? No, I didn’t, but let me say, when I was still studying, my teacher died and I came here a year. A friend of mine told me to go to a director’s office. He doesn’t live anymore. Even if he were alive, I still wouldn’t say his name. I gave my last twenty to the cab to go somewhere to Euclidon from New Smyrna where I lived. I went to his place. At some point this man got up from his office and came towards me. He had a verbal flirtation, not bad, but then he had an air. He made movies then. There is no more, and unfortunately then he became friends with my brothers and sent me greetings. As soon as I saw something was happening and he was coming towards me, fortunately the door wasn’t locked, I left. And I passed through the Field of Mars – I had no idea what was going on there – on foot. I reached New Smyrna on foot without thinking of any danger. I faced it. I got up and left. If the door was locked, I don’t know what would happen. I know all girls have suffered such harassment. The MeToo movement left something behind? I don’t know. I am a man for liberty and for self-determination. Everybody knows. It is a little disappointing to go to a general union convention and because at some point the matter was only that, I asked for the reason to deal with other things that burn us. He was misunderstood. I felt so bad. Some girls got thrown away and shouted something against me. That I am against MeToo. First of all, I don’t like the term because it’s American, and I don’t like Americans. I would never be against such a move. They just forgot everything else. It was disrespectful. I don’t want to be respected. But it was disrespectful because I have been vice president, secretary and president of our historic union and before I could say a word they thought I was against this situation.